The Directionality of Conversion in English: A Dia-Synchronic Study - Couverture souple

Balteiro Fernández, Isabel

 
9783039112418: The Directionality of Conversion in English: A Dia-Synchronic Study
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3039112414 ISBN 13 : 9783039112418
Editeur : Verlag Peter Lang, 2007

Synopsis

This book received the Leocadio Martín Mingorance award This book describes three of the main problems that the word-formation process known as conversion presents, namely those related to its definition, its delimitation, and its directionality. The latter constitutes, however, the main focus of the study, which is based on a corpus of over seven hundred lexical units and, more specifically, on 231 actual noun-verb conversion pairs. Considering that directionality is intrinsic to conversion, the main question is whether it is always possible to establish the direction of conversion or whether it is possible to do so only in some cases. Moreover, the study reveals what ‘type' of directionality is involved, that is, whether the process is unidirectional, bidirectional or multi-directional. In order to answer these questions, both diachronic (etymology and dates of first records) and synchronic criteria (semantic dependence, restriction of usage, semantic range, semantic pattern, phonetic shape, morphologic type, stress, and the principle of relative markedness) are analysed and assessed.

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À propos de l'auteur

The Author : Isabel Balteiro obtained her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in English Studies at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). She taught at the University of Granada (Spain) for a short period and she is currently a Lecturer at the University of Alicante (Spain). She is also the author of the book A Contribution to the Study of Conversion in English as well as of some articles and book chapters concerning the study of English word-formation and lexis.

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Éditeur
Verlag Peter Lang
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3039112414
ISBN 13 
9783039112418
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
276
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Personne responsable
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