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Title: Abgeleitete Personenbezeichnungen im Deutschen und Englischen. Kontrastive Wortbildungsanalysen im Rahmen des Minimalistischen Programms und unter Beruecksichtigung sprachhistorischer Aspekte
Author: Heike Baeskow
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Degree Awarded: University of Wuppertal , Department of English and American Studies
Degree Date: 2001
Linguistic Subfield(s): Historical Linguistics
Morphology
Lexicography
Subject Language(s): English
German, Standard
Director(s): Gisa Rauh
Dieter Wolff
Abstract:

Abgeleitete Personenbezeichnungen im Deutschen und Englischen. Kontrastive Wortbildungsanalysen im Rahmen des Minimalistischen Programms und unter Beruecksichtigung sprachhistorischer Aspekte.
[Derived Personal Nouns of German and English. Contrastive Analyses of Word-Formation Processes in a Minimalist Framework Including Etymological Aspects.]

This study of derived personal nouns in German and English gives a comprehensive description and detailed contrastive analysis of forms in these two languages. It treats them unter four broad headings - Nomina Agentis (e. g. Konstrukt-eur, Archiv-ar, Biolog-e; driv-er, novel-ist, Shakespear-i-an), Nomina Patientis (e. g. Lehr-ling, Examin-and, Stipendi-at; found-ling, employ-ee, festschrift-ee), Nomina Qualitatis (e. g. Feig-ling, Grob-ian, Schlaff-i; weak-ling, dull-ard, dear-y) and Nomina Originis (e. g. Schwed-e, Tibet-aner, Doerf-ler; Mexic-an, Vienn-ese, Punjab-i) - and deals with both synchronic and diachronic aspects. Consisting largely of fifteen suffix studies, the book can be used as a source of reference and is in this respect in the tradition of the handbooks on word-formation by authors such als FLEISCHER or MARCHAND. However, the work also develops and implements a modern theoretical framework for the synchronic level of description, using a feature-based theory of word-formation designed as a lexical component within CHOMSKY´s Minimalist Program. It offers detailed analyses of word-formation processes and extensive discussion of morphological problems such as the semantics of denominal derivatives, the lexical representation of borrowed morphemes, and the question of allomorphy. The thesis has been published as:

Abgeleitete Personenbezeichnungen im Deutschen und Englischen. Kontrastive Wortbildungsanalysen im Rahmen des Minimalistischen Programms und unter Beruecksichtigung sprachhistorischer Aspekte. Berlin [u. a.]: Walter de Gruyter 2002 (xx + 769 pp.)
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