Introduction and acknowledgments
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Swintha Danielsen
Abstract
The term ‘word formation’ is ambiguous in modern linguistics. In one usage of the term, it is equivalent to ‘morphology’ and refers to matters such as affixation and reduplication as used in the creation of words. In the more widely accepted sense of the term, word formation refers to the creation of new lexemes in a given language. Thus it specifically excludes inflectional morphology, such as that which makes manages and managed from the base manage. At the same time, it may include things that are only marginally considered to be morphology, or that may be excluded from morphology. (L. Bauer 2006: 632, emphasis in the original)
Abstract
The term ‘word formation’ is ambiguous in modern linguistics. In one usage of the term, it is equivalent to ‘morphology’ and refers to matters such as affixation and reduplication as used in the creation of words. In the more widely accepted sense of the term, word formation refers to the creation of new lexemes in a given language. Thus it specifically excludes inflectional morphology, such as that which makes manages and managed from the base manage. At the same time, it may include things that are only marginally considered to be morphology, or that may be excluded from morphology. (L. Bauer 2006: 632, emphasis in the original)
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction and acknowledgments 1
- Nominal compounds in Mapudungun 11
- Towards a characterization of compounding in Maká 33
- Augmentative in Toba (Guaycuruan) 51
- Productive compounding in Baure (Arawakan) 79
- Two types of incorporation in Ese Ejja (Takanan) 113
- Reduplication in Yurakaré 143
- Reduplication strategies in Kallawaya 163
- Compounding in Kalapalo, a Southern Cariban language 181
- Nominalization in Cholón 207
- Index 225
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction and acknowledgments 1
- Nominal compounds in Mapudungun 11
- Towards a characterization of compounding in Maká 33
- Augmentative in Toba (Guaycuruan) 51
- Productive compounding in Baure (Arawakan) 79
- Two types of incorporation in Ese Ejja (Takanan) 113
- Reduplication in Yurakaré 143
- Reduplication strategies in Kallawaya 163
- Compounding in Kalapalo, a Southern Cariban language 181
- Nominalization in Cholón 207
- Index 225
