Schulte The Semantics of Derivational Morphology

A Synchronic and Diachronic Investigation of the Suffixes -age and -ery in English
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-3-8233-7963-8
Verlag: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 49, 245 Seiten

Reihe: Language in Performance (LIP)

This book presents a synchronic and diachronic investigation of two derivational English affixes. The suffixes -age and -ery are analysed on the basis of dictionary and corpus data and an adapted semantic map method is introduced as a new way of accounting for the semantic structure of derivatives. This study shows that the semantic structure of morphological categories can change signi ficantly over time, and that semantic maps can represent this change in a straightforward manner. The semantic maps visualise the relations and interdependencies of the readings expressed by derivatives, which leads to a new understanding of the semantic complexity of these categories.

Marion Schulte lehrt Englische Sprachwissenschaft an der Universität Bielefeld.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schulte, Marion