Morphology and Lexical Semantics

Morphology and Lexical

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examinesderivedwords (writer, unionize), compounds (dog bed, truck driver), and words formed by conversion

. Using a series of case studies from English, Rochelle Lieber analyzes the lexical semantics of

word formation in a systematic way.

The reader is able to explore the nature of affixal polysemy–the reasons why there are multiple affixes with the same function

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ion, conversion/zero-derivation, or semantic mismatches in Morphology and Lexicalderivation.

These are confronted and answered in turn with a step-by-step style that helps the reader being aware of where they are standing at every moment .

.. includes a comprehensive list of references as well as an index with entries for authors

, subjects, and languages, and is undoubtedly a recommendable reference for modern linguistics

.l’ Canadian Journal of Linguistics

‘… this monograph provides a very interesting and useful framework

. Perhaps the greatest value of this book is that it shows that semantics is essential for a proper theory of word formation.

To give just one example

, the relisting-analysis for conversion is highly convincing because of its very simple semantic motivation. Morphology and

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