D Gary Miller

English Lexicogenesis

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the processes by which novel words in English are coined, adopted, and adapted, such as affixation, compounding, and clipping. It looks at the interaction between word-forming operations, expressive morphology, and language play, and will appeal to all those interested in English etymology, lexicography, and morphology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780199689880
• ISBN-10: 0199689881
• Artikelnr.: 40305351

Autorenporträt

D. Gary Miller is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Classics at the Universities of Florida and Colorado, Boulder. His books include Homer and the Ionian Epic Tradition (1982), Improvisation, Typology, Culture, and 'The New Orthodoxy': How 'Oral' is Homer? (1982), Complex Verb Formation (1993), Ancient Scripts and Phonological Knowledge (1994), Nonfinite Structures in Theory and Change (OUP 2002), Latin Suffixal Derivatives in English (OUP 2005), Language Change and Linguistic Theory (2 vols, OUP 2010), and External Influences on English: From Beginnings to the Renaissance (OUP 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

1: Theoretical assumptions
2: Productivity and constraints
3: Compounding
4: New patterns of derivation
5: Novel word crafting
6: Metaphor and metonymy
7: Folk etymology and tabu
8: The cycle of expressivity
9: Phonological form and abridgements
10: Sound symbolism
11: Clipping
12: Blending
13: Formative extraction, combining forms, and neoclassical compounding
14: Reduplicative and conjunctive formations
15: Core and expressive morphology: Conclusion