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Title Word-formation : an international handbook of the languages of Europe. Volume 2 / edited by Peter O. Müller, Ingeborg Ohnheiser, Susan Olsen, Franz Rainer
Published Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xii pages, pages 803-1560)
Series Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationwissenschaft = Handbooks of linguistics and communication science = Manuels de linguistique et des sciences de communication, 1861-5090 ; Band 40.2
Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft ; Bd. 40.2.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- IV. Rules and restrictions in word-formation I: General aspects -- 45. Rules, patterns and schemata in word-formation -- 46. Word-formation and analogy -- 47. Productivity -- 48. Restrictions in word-formation -- V. Rules and restrictions in word-formation II: Special cases -- 49. Argument-structural restrictions on word-formation patterns -- 50. Phonological restrictions on English word-formation -- 51. Morphological restrictions on English word-formation -- 52. Semantic restrictions on word-formation: the English suffix -ee -- 53. Dissimilatory phenomena in French word-formation -- 54. Closing suffixes -- 55. Closing suffix patterns in Russian -- VI. Semantics and pragmatics in word-formation I: General aspects -- 56. Motivation, compositionality, idiomatization -- 57. Word-formation and folk etymology -- 58. Categories of word-formation -- 59. Schemata and semantic roles in word-formation -- 60. Word-formation and argument structure -- 61. Word-formation and metonymy -- 62. The pragmatics of word-formation -- VII. Semantics and pragmatics in wordformation II: Special cases -- 63. Noun-noun compounds -- 64. Gender marking -- 65. Singulatives -- 66. Collectives -- 67. Action nouns -- 68. Action nouns in Romance -- 69. Verbal nouns in Celtic -- 70. Nominalization in Hungarian -- 71. Result nouns -- 72. Quality nouns -- 73. Status nouns -- 74. Agent and instrument nouns -- 75. Patient nouns -- 76. Place nouns -- 77. Intensification -- 78. Negation -- 79. Negation in the Slavic and Germanic languages -- 80. Spatial and temporal relations in German word-formation -- 81. Adverbial categories -- 82. Denominal verbs -- 83. Valency-changing word-formation -- 84. Word-formation and lexical aspect: deverbal verbs in Italian -- 85. Word-formation and aspect in Samoyedic -- 86. Verbal prefixation in Slavic: a minimalist approach -- 87. Denumeral categories -- 88. The semantics and pragmatics of Romance evaluative suffixes -- 89. Morphopragmatics in Slavic
Summary This handbook comprises an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in word-formation. The five volumes contain 207 articles written by leading international scholars. The 16 sections of the handbook provide the reader in general articles and individual studies with a wide variety of perspectives. The final section contains 74 portraits of word-formation in the individual languages of Europe and offers an innovative perspective
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed March 30, 2016)
Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Morphology.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Word formation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Morphology
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Word formation
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SUBJECT Europe -- Languages -- Word formation
Subject Europe
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Online-Publikation.
Form Electronic book
Author Müller, Peter O., Dr., editor.
Ohnheiser, Ingeborg, editor
Olsen, Susan, 1948- editor.
Rainer, Franz, editor.
ISBN 9783112147337
3112147332
9783110246278
3110246279
9783110394689
3110394685