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The Structural Design of Language

By Thomas S. Stroik, Michael T. Putnam

In this book, Stroik and Putnam take on Turing's challenge. They argue that the narrow syntax – the lexicon, the Numeration, and the computational system – must reside, for reasons of conceptual necessity, within the performance systems.


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Title: Productivity in English Word-formation
Subtitle: An approach to N+N compounding
Written By: Jesús Fernández-Domínguez
URL: http://www.peterlang.com/Index.cfm?vLang=E&vSiteID=4&vSiteName=BookDetail%2Ecfm&VID=11808
Series Title: European University Studies. Series 21: Linguistics. Vol. 341
Description:

This book is a contribution to the study of morphological productivity, that is, the property of word-formation processes whereby new words are created to satisfy a naming need. It presents an up-to-date picture of this phenomenon, characterising its major attributes and addressing neighbouring theoretical concepts like availability, profitability or lexicalisation. Links are also established between those notions and N+N compounding, a word-formation process regarded as very productive but traditionally overlooked in studies of this type. Unlike other productivity surveys, mostly directed at affixation, a corpus of N+N compounds is here compiled to which the mainstream models of productivity are applied. This allows to detect the pros and cons of those proposals and to propose a model of productivity. Two measures, Indicator of Profitability (p) and Trend of Profitability (P), are introduced which can be applied across word-formation processes and are able to compute their productivity based on semantic categories.

Contents:

What is a Compound?: Major Features - Classical Standpoints - Noun Compounds in Contemporary English - The Boundary between Morphology and Syntax - What is Morphological Productivity?: Word-formation - Rudiments - Factors Influencing Productivity - Gradation - Morphological Productivity Measurement: Productivity as Analysable Words - Productivity as Potentiality - Stekauer: the Onomasiological Approach - Neologism-based counts - Relative Frequency and Phonotactics - A Model for Profitability.

Publication Year: 2009
Publisher: Peter Lang AG
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Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
Morphology
Subject Language(s): English

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Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9783039118083
Pages: 204
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