Morphology and Lexical Semantics - Couverture souple

Lieber, Rochelle

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521100437 ISBN 13 : 9780521100434

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Morphology and Lexical Semantics explores the meanings of morphemes and how they combine to form the meanings of complex words, including derived words (writer, unionise), compounds (dog bed, truck driver) and words formed by conversion. Rochelle Lieber discusses the lexical semantics of word formation in a systematic way, allowing the reader to explore the nature of affixal polysemy, the reasons why there are multiple affixes with the same function and the issues of mismatch between form and meaning in word formation. Using a series of case studies from English, this book develops and justifies the theoretical apparatus necessary for raising and answering many questions about the semantics of word formation. Distinguishing between a lexical semantic skeleton that is featural and hierarchically organised and a lexical semantic body that is holistic, it shows how the semantics of word formation has a paradigmatic character.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Rochelle Lieber is Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521100437
• ISBN 13: 9780521100434
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 208
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