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Cognitive Perspectives on Word Formation (Hardcover)
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Cognitive Perspectives on Word Formation (Hardcover)
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
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While cognitive linguistics has become established as a
comprehensive research paradigm over the last three decades, it has
so far hardly contributed to investigations into processes of
lexical creation as traditionally captured in research on word
formation. In light of this, the volume at hand is the first one to
take a step ahead towards illuminating diverse aspects of word
formation from cognitive perspectives. The book combines
contributions to the 2nd International Cognitive Linguistics
Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association with a
selection of invited papers by scholars working on issues of word
formation and cognitive linguistics. This selection is guided by
pluralism in both methodology and topics. Thus, some contributions
are of a primarily theoretical nature discussing, for example,
recombinance as a model of word formation and a taxonomy of word
formation processes as construction types. Several articles address
interface issues such as word formation and phrasal constructions,
word formation and inflection, as well as phonology and word
formational patterns. The majority of the studies focuses on
individual types of word formation (compounding, affixation, and
conversion), and they contribute to reframing our understanding of
these processes. With a focus on mostly Germanic languages
(Afrikaans, Dutch, English, German, Luxembourgish, and Norwegian),
data-driven analyses include corpus linguistic investigations,
elicited data, psycholinguistic experiments, and computational
linguistic applications. A few contributions follow a mainly
introspective path of reasoning based on the discussion of selected
examples as in the analysis of creative compounds. Overall, the
volume provides a rich array of topics emerging under the umbrella
of cognitive linguistic thought and established patterns and
processes of word formation. The various studies add to a yet
marginal body of research in cognitive word formation and, thus,
advance our awareness about the benefits of applying cognitive
linguistic thoughts for investigating processes of lexical
creation.
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