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Analogy and Contrast in Language: Perspectives from Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by Karolina Krawczak, Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Marcin Grygiel
[Human Cognitive Processing 73] 2022
► pp. 303–340

Chapter 10
Analogy and contrast at the morphology-syntax interface

A case study of new Russian [N[N]] compounds

| UiT The Arctic University of Norway

This chapter brings together the issues of analogy and contrast through a perspective of linguistic borrowing. We analyze the integration of new [N[N]] compounds, borrowed from English into Russian (e.g. top-igrok ‘top player’). By discussing two corpus studies and two small experiments, we show that Russian new [N[N]] compounds reflect both “levelling” and “extension”. There are at least three factors that can block “leveling”: statistical preemption, which is overridden by pragmatic factors; multiplicity of competing alternatives, when several suffixes could be added to the stem to form a relational adjective; and semantics that leads to a split between the two forms. Compound modifiers seem to represent terms and official titles, whereas adjective phrases become qualitative, where possible, or pragmatic.

Keywords: extension, leveling, linguistic borrowing, statistical preemption
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Analogy and contrast and adjacent linguistic processes
  • 3.Analogy effects in Russian [N[N]] compounds
    • 3.1“Levelling”: [N[N]] compounds vs. adjective phrases
    • 3.2“Extension”: Contracted pattern in experimental data
  • 4.Contrast effects in Russian [N[N]] compounds
    • 4.1Contrast between [N[N]] compounds and appositions
    • 4.2Contrast between [N[N]] compounds and adjective phrases
      • 4.2.1Variation between [N[N]] compounds and adjective phrases in the internet corpus
      • 4.2.2Variation between [N[N]] compounds and adjective phrases in a linguistic experiment
  • 5.Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
  • Appendix
Published online: 27 October 2022
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