Elizaveta Tarasova
List of John Benjamins publications for which Elizaveta Tarasova plays a role.
Articles
2024 Chapter 5. Exploring linguistic competition in English derivatives ending in ‑ ie and ‑ o through a cognitive-onomasiological approach Competition in Word-Formation, Bagasheva, Alexandra, Akiko Nagano and Vincent Renner (eds.), pp. 139–175 | Chapter
This study investigates the issue of linguistic competition by analysing a dataset comprised of ‑ie/-o doublets, e.g. kiddie/kiddo, weirdie/weirdo. The analysis is based on the key tenets of the onomasiological approach to word-formation (Štekauer 1998) supplemented by the prototypical approach… read more
2020 Iconicity and word-formation: An examination of Adj+ie/y nominalisations through a Bidirectional Conceptualisation Model The Wealth and Breadth of Construction-Based Research, Colleman, Timothy, Frank Brisard, Astrid De Wit, Renata Enghels, Nikos Koutsoukos, Tanja Mortelmans and María Sol Sansiñena (eds.), pp. 332–344 | Article
This article aims to encourage a discussion of how evaluative morphemes conform to the principles of iconicity and Construction Grammar through the examination of English Adj+ie/y nominalisations (e.g. brownie, softie). Our analysis of the Adj+ie/y paradigm investigates conceptual processes that… read more
2020 On twittizens and city residents: Experimental study of semantic relations in English compounds and blends Semantics and Psychology of Complex Words, Gagné, Christina L. and Thomas L. Spalding (eds.), pp. 21–41 | Article
The present study analyses native speaker perceptions of the differences in the semantic structure of compounds and blends to specify whether the formal differences between compounds and blends are reflected on the semantic level. Viewpoints on blending vary, with some researchers considering it… read more