Morphology and Meaning
Selected papers from the 15th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, February 2012
Editors
The problem of form and meaning in morphology has produced an impressive amount of scholarly work over the last hundred years. Nevertheless, many issues continue to be in need of clarification. The present volume assembles 18 selected papers from the 15th International Morphology Meeting (Vienna, 9–12 February 2012) relating to this vast field of research. The introduction provides a detailed overview of the state of the art in the field. It is followed by three articles derived from the plenaries that are dedicated to fundamental issues such as the relationship between morphological meaning and concepts, between word formation and meaning change, as well as indirect coding. The section papers tackle a wide array of issues, including affixal polysemy, pathways of grammaticalization, the processing of compounds, mismatches between form and meaning, synonymy avoidance, or the semantics of specific patterns of noun incorporation, compounding, reduplication and mimetic verbs.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 327] 2014. viii, 350 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Editors’ introduction
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Morphology and meaning: An overviewFranz Rainer, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Francesco Gardani and Hans Christian Luschützky | pp. 3–46
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Plenary papers
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Roots, concepts, and word structure: On the atoms of lexical semanticsPaolo Acquaviva | pp. 49–70
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Between word formation and meaning changePeter Koch | pp. 71–96
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Indirect codingChristian Lehmann | pp. 97–124
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Section papers
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Diachrony and the polysemy of derivational affixesGiorgio Francesco Arcodia | pp. 127–140
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Possessive compounds in Slavic and the Principle of Integrated MeronymyIveta Chovanová and Pavel Štichauer | pp. 141–152
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Relation diversity and ease of processing for opaque and transparent English compoundsChristina L. Gagné and Thomas L. Spalding | pp. 153–162
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Inflection vs. derivation: The function and meaning of the Mordvin abessiveArja Hamari | pp. 163–176
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Discrepancy between form and meaning in word-formation: The case of over- and under-marking in FrenchNabil Hathout and Fiammetta Namer | pp. 177–190
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Compounds vs. phrases: The cognitive status of morphological productsSven Kotowski, Katja Böer and Holden Härtl | pp. 191–204
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Semantic transparency, compounding, and the nature of independent variablesGary Libben and Silke Weber | pp. 205–222
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The layering of form and meaning in creole word-formation: A view from construction morphologyAna R. Luís | pp. 223–238
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Semantic headedness and categorization of -cum- compoundsRamón Martí Solano | pp. 239–248
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German plural doublets with and without meaning differentiationKarlheinz Mörth and Wolfgang U. Dressler | pp. 249–258
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On the form and meaning of double noun incorporationAlessio Muro | pp. 259–274
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Tuning morphosemantic transparency by shortening: A cross-linguistic perspectiveElke Ronneberger-Sibold | pp. 275–288
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Root transparency and the morphology-meaning interface: Data from HebrewBatia Seroussi | pp. 289–302
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Mimetic verbs and meaningNatsuko Tsujimura | pp. 303–314
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Mismatch verbs: A unified account of unaccusatives and deponentsPhilipp Weisser | pp. 315–330
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The canonical function of the deponent verbs in modern GreekKaterina Zombolou and Artemis Alexiadou | pp. 331–344
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Language index | pp. 345–346
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Subject index | pp. 347–350
Cited by (5)
Cited by five other publications
Oikonomou, Despina & Artemis Alexiadou
Dressler, Wolfgang U., Lavinia Merlini Barbaresi, Sonja Schwaiger, Jutta Ransmayr, Sabine Sommer-Lolei & Katharina Korecky-Kröll
Arcodia, Giorgio Francesco & Bianca Basciano
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFK: Grammar, syntax
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General