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Dynamics at the Lexicon-Syntax Interface

Creativity and Routine in Word-Formation and Multi-Word Expressions
  • Edited by: Sabine Arndt-Lappe and Natalia Filatkina
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2025
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Both word-formation (WF) and the coinage of multi-word expressions (MWE) can be characterised in terms of creativity and routine. Routine in word-formation and multi-word expressions is traditionally described in terms of morphological, lexical, syntactic, and pragmatic rules, but ‘creativity’ is defined in different ways, with definitions ranging from seeing creativity at the heart of human (linguistic) cognition to seeing creativity as precisely beyond ‘regular’ routines, e.g. as an attention-seeking tool or wordplay. In this latter sense, ‘creativity’ is usually sharply distinguished from ‘productivity’, i.e. rule-governed behaviour. Despite these categorisations, the question on what basis patterns are to be defined as ‘creative’ still remains subject to debate. Futhermore, creativity and routine are often studied independently of each other, by different research communities. The volume aims to bring together these different research communities to discuss empirical evidence on the role of creativity and routinization in WF and MWEs.

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Sabine Arndt-Lappe, University of Trier, Germany; Natalia Filatkina, University of Hamburg, Germany.


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Sabine Arndt-Lappe and Natalia Filatkina
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A Theoretical Approaches to Creativity and Routine

Three Case Studies
Alexandra Bagasheva
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Raymond W. Gibbs Jr
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Vsevolod Kapatsinski
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Hans-Jörg Schmid
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B Dynamics of Creativity and Routine in Diachrony

The Emergence of German Come to mind Constructions
Fabian Fleissner
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How German Complex Prepositions Are Shaped
Regina Ruf and Elena Smirnova
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A Micro-Diachronic Approach to the Entrenchment and Conventionalization of Lexico-Grammatical Patterns in German
Sören Stumpf
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Monica Vasileanu and Anabella-Gloria Niculescu-Gorpin
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C Dynamics of Creativity and Routine in Synchrony

Creativity and Routine in Name-Based Lexical Patterns
Maximilian Frankowsky and Barbara Schlücker
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Creativity and Routine in English shm-Reduplication
Stefan Hartmann and Tobias Ungerer
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Pedro Ivorra Ordines and Carmen Mellado Blanco
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Creativity, Routinization or Both?
Muriel Norde, Francesca Masini, Kristel Van Goethem and Daniel Ebner
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Martin Schäfer
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eBook published on:
July 24, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9783111321905
Hardcover published on:
July 31, 2025
Hardcover ISBN:
9783111321769
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Front matter:
6
Main content:
411
Illustrations:
43
Coloured Illustrations:
5
Tables:
54
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