Author: Lois Carolyn DuboisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The Production and Expansion of Nominal Compounds in Child Language
Author: Lois Carolyn DuboisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Nominal Compound Acquisition
Author: Wolfgang U. DresslerPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 902726497X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This book offers a systematic study of the emergence and early development of compound nouns in first language acquisition from a cross-linguistic and typological perspective. The language sample is both genealogically and typologically diversified, ranging from languages rich in compounds, such as German, Saami, Estonian and Finnish, to languages poor in compounds, such as French. Some of them differ in compound richness according to genres of adult-directed speech in contrast to child-directed speech and thus also child speech, like Russian, Lithuanian and especially Greek. Differences in the delimitation and transition between compounds and phrases and in the distribution of subtypes of compounds in these languages involve great typological variety and thus different tasks for children acquiring them. The eleven languages investigated in the volume and the common methodology of longitudinal collection of spontaneous speech data concerning the interaction between children and their caretakers or peers, supplemented by lexical typology as a new means of cross-linguistic comparison of language acquisition, allow new generalizations and make the volume a unique contribution.
The Semantics of Compounding
Author: Pius ten HackenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107099706
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Presents three frameworks for studying morphology, offering different insights into the meaning of compounds.
The Oxford Handbook of the Word
Author: John R. TaylorPublisher:
ISBN: 0199641609
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 897
Book Description
This handbook addresses words in all their multifarious aspects and brings together scholars from every relevant discipline to do so. The many subjects covered include word frequencies; sounds and sound symbolism; the structure of words; taboo words; lexical borrowing; words in dictionaries and thesauri; word origins and change; place and personal names; nicknames; taxonomies; word acquisition and bilingualism; words in the mind; word disorders; and word games, puns, and puzzles. Words are the most basic of all linguistic units, the aspect of language of which everyone is likely to be most conscious. A 'new' word that makes it into the OED is prime news; when baby says its first word its parents reckon it has started to speak; knowing a language is often taken to mean knowing its words; and languages are seen to be related by the similarities between their words. Up to the twentieth century linguistic description was mainly an account of words and all the current subdivisions of linguistics have something to say about them. A notable feature of human languages is the sheer vastness of their word inventories, and scholars and writers have sometimes deliberately increased the richness of their languages by coining or importing new items into their word-hoards. The book presents scholarship and research in a manner that meets the interests of students and professionals and satisfies the curiosity of the educated reader.
Compounds and Compounding
Author: Laurie BauerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108416039
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
This controversial new book addresses the linguistic problems around compounds: words which sit on the borderline of syntax and morphology.
Resources in Education
Author: The Oxford Handbook of Compounding
Author: Rochelle LieberPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199219877
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
This book presents a comprehensive review of theoretical work on the linguistics and psycholinguistics of compound words and combines it with a series of surveys of compounding in a variety of languages from a wide range of language families. Compounding is an effective way to create and express new meanings. Compound words are segmentable into their constituents so that new items can often be understood on first presentation. However, as keystone, keynote, and keyboard, and breadboard, sandwich-board, and mortarboard show, the relation between components is often far from straightforward. The question then arises, as to how far compound sequences are analysed at each encounter and how far they are stored in the brain as single lexical items? The nature and processing of compounds thus offer an unusually direct route to how language operates in the mind, as well as providing the means of investigating important aspects of morphology, and lexical semantics, and insights to child language acquisition and the organization of the mental lexicon. This book is the first to report on the state of the art on these and other central topics, including the classification and typology of compounds, and cross-linguistic research on the subject in different frameworks and from synchronic and diachronic perspectives.
Commencement Ceremony
Author: University of California, Davis. Graduate DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commencement ceremonies
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Cognitive Linguistics - Foundations of Language
Author: Ewa DąbrowskaPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110626470
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Cognitive foundations of language introduces the reader to the abilities and processes in which research in Cognitive Linguistics is grounded. The book looks at key concepts, such as embodiment, salience, entrenchment, construal, categorization, and collaborative communication, and discusses their genesis and implications for cognitive linguistic research.
Compound Words in Spanish
Author: María Irene MoynaPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027248346
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
This is the first book devoted entirely to the history of compound words in Spanish. Based on data obtained from Spanish dictionaries and databases of the past thousand years, it documents the evolution of the major compounding patterns of the language. It analyzes the structural, semantic, and orthographic features of each compound type, and also provides a description of its Latin antecedents, early attestations, and relative frequency and productivity over the centuries. The combination of qualitative and quantitative data shows that although most compound types have survived, they have undergone changes in word order and relative frequency. Moreover, the book shows that the evolution of compounding in Spanish may be accounted for by processes of language acquisition in children. This book, which includes all the data in chronological and alphabetical order, will be a valuable resource for morphologists, Romance linguists, and historical linguists more generally.