Description
Book SynopsisThis is a collection of research papers on competition in English affixation. It combines methodological chapters with descriptive chapters and incorporates both contributions by renowned international authors and also by younger researchers. The book presents diachronic and synchronic research both onomasiological and semasiological. The first three chapters review the literature and provide the theoretical framework for the experimental description of the remaining chapters.
Table of ContentsJuan Santana-Lario/Salvador Valera-Hernández: Preface – Pavol Štekauer: Competition in Natural Languages – Alexandra Bagasheva: Comparative semantic concepts in affixation – Jesús Fernández-Domínguez: Methodological and procedural issues in the quantification of morphological competition – Ana Díaz-Negrillo: On the identification of competition in English derivational morphemes. The case of -dom, -hood and –ship – Cristina Fernández-Alcaina: Availability and unavailability in English word-formation – Cristina Lara-Clares: Competition in Present Day English nominalization by zero-affixation vs. -ation
