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Title: AN ONOMASIOLOGICAL THEORY OF ENGLISH WORD-FORMATION
By: Pavol Stekauer
Format: Hardback

List price: £88.00


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ISBN 10: 9027215553
ISBN 13: 9789027215550
Publisher: JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING CO
Series: Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics 46
Pages: 202
Description: This work is built on the "Referent-concept-meaning-form" scheme which is denoted here as the "onomasiological approach". The author outlines the principals of his theory, discusses the scope and place of the word-formation component in linguistics, deals with aspects of productivity, and more.
Synopsis: Pavol Stekauer presents an original approach to the intricate problems of English word-formation. The emphasis is on the process of coining new naming units (words). This is described by an onomasiological model, which takes as its point of departure the naming needs of a speech community, and proceeds through conceptual reflection of extra-linguistic reality and semantic analysis to the form of a new naming unit. As a result, it is the form which implements options given by semantics by means of the so-called Form-to-Meaning Assignment Principle. Word-formation is conceived of as an independent component, interrelated with the lexical component by supplying it with new naming units, and by making use of the word-formation bases of naming units stored in the Lexicon. The relation to the Syntactic component is only mediated through the Lexical component. In addition, the book presents a new approach to productivity. It is maintained that word-formation processes are as productive as syntactic processes. This radically new approach provides simple answers to a number of traditional problems of word-formation.
Illustrations: references, indices
Publication: Netherlands
Imprint: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Returns: Non-returnable
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