Making New Words
Morphological Derivation in English
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book provides a detailed study of around 200 English prefixes and suffixes. Each affix is discussed in detail, with information on its origin, phonological form, stress placement, semantic range, and the roots it can be attached to. It will be a...
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This book provides a detailed study of around 200 English prefixes and suffixes. Each affix is discussed in detail, with information on its origin, phonological form, stress placement, semantic range, and the roots it can be attached to. It will be a valuable text for those studying English language and linguistics from undergraduate level upwards
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Making New Words provides a detailed study of the 200 or so prefixes and suffixes which create new words in today's English. Alongside a systematic discussion of these forms, Professor Dixon explores and explains the hundreds of conundrums that seem to be exceptions to general rules. Why, for instance, do we say un-distinguished (with prefix un-) but in-distinguishable (with in-); why un-ceasing but in-cesssant? Why, alongside gold-en, do we say silver-y (not silver-en)? Why is it wood-en (not wood-ic) but metall-ic (not metall-en)? After short preliminary chapters, which set the scene and outline the criteria employed, there are accounts of the derivation of negative words, of other derivations which do not change word class, on making new verbs, new adjectives, new nouns, and new adverbs. The final chapter deals with combinations of suffixes, of prefixes, and of the two together. Within each chapter, derivational affixes are arranged in semantic groups, the members of which are contrasted with respect to meaning and function; for example, child-less and child-free. For each affix there is an account of its genetic origin (from Old English, Greek, Latin, French, and so on), its phonological form and implications for stress placement, the roots it can be attached to (and why), and how its range of meanings has developed over the centuries. The book is written in the author's accustomed style - clear and well-organised, with easy-to-understand explanations. The exposition is illustrated by examples, ranging from Shakespeare, W. S. Gilbert, and modern novels to what was heard on the radio. It will be an invaluable text and sourcebook for scholars and students of the English language and of general linguistics, from undergraduate level upwards. The many fascinating facts presented here, in such a lucid and accessible manner, will also appeal to the general reader interested in picking to pieces the English language to see how it works.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Making New Words “
- 1: Preliminaries
- 2: How to make new words
- 3: Criteria - affixes, semi-affixes, and compounds
- 4: What we describe
- 5: Un-expected, mis-judged, dis-organized counter-revolution: Making negative words
- 6: Ultra-patriotic, extra-special, pre-election pseudo-promise: Keeping the same word class
- 7: Be-feather, smart-en, em-power, beauti-fy, moral-ize: Making new verbs
- 8: Moon-like, death-ly, angr-y, mysteri-ous, memor-able: Making new adjectives
- 9: Eager-ness, bidd-ing, pay-ment, owner-ship, satisf-action: Making new nouns
- 10: Carefully, sideways, homewards, crab-fashion: Making new adverbs
- 11: Un-relent-less-ly de-west-ern-iz-ing non-mean-ing-ful infra-structures: Combining affixes
- 12: Envoi: the way of words
- Appendix 1: List of adjective and verb semantic types, with sample members
- Appendix 2: Alphabetical directory of adjective and verbs in the list of semantic types
- Glossary
- References
Autoren-Porträt von R. M. W Dixon
R. M. W. Dixon is Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University. He has published grammars of a number of Australian languages (including Dyirbal and Yidiñ), in addition to A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian (University of Chicago Press, 1988), The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia (OUP, 2004; paperback 2011) and A Semantic Approach to English Grammar (Oxford University Press, 2005). He is also the author of the three volume work Basic Linguistic Theory (OUP, 2010-12) and his book Edible Gender will be published by OUP in 2015.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: R. M. W Dixon
- 2014, 472 Seiten, mit Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 23,8 x 17,2 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198712375
- ISBN-13: 9780198712374
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2014
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Every teacher and student of English linguistics should possess this excellent book ... a truly monumental work. Pavol Stekauer, Language
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