Morphology and Lexical Semantics

By:

Rochelle Lieber

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Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Linguistics

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Morphology and Lexical Semantics explores the meanings of morphemes and how they combine to form the meanings of complex words, including derived words (writer, unionize), compounds (dog bed, truck driver), and words formed by conversion. Rochelle Lieber discusses the lexical semantics of word formation in a systematic way, allowing the reader to explore the nature of affixal polysemy, the reasons why there are multiple affixes with the same function, and the issues of mismatch between form and meaning in word formation. Using a series of case studies from English, this book develops and justifies the theoretical apparatus necessary for raising and answering many questions about the semantics of word formation. Distinguishing between a lexical semantic skeleton that is featural and hierarchically organized, and a lexical semantic body that is holistic, it shows how the semantics of word formation has a paradigmatic character.

Author Biography:

Rochelle Lieber is Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire.

Release date Australia

July 1st, 2004

Author

Rochelle Lieber

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

208

Series

Cambridge Studies in Linguistics

Dimensions

160x235x18

ISBN-13

9780521831710

Product ID

2485517

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