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English Lexicogenesis (Hardcover)
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English Lexicogenesis (Hardcover)
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English Lexicogenesis investigates the processes by which novel
words are coined in English, and how they are variously discarded
or adopted, and frequently then adapted. Gary Miller looks at the
roles of affixation, compounding, clipping, and blending in the
history of lexicogenesis, including processes taking place right
now. The first four chapters consider English morphology and the
recent types of word formation in English: the first introduces the
morphological terminology used in the work and the book's
theoretical perspectives; chapter 2 discusses productivity and
constraints on derivations; chapter 3 describes the basic typology
of English compounds; and chapter 4 considers the role of particles
in word formation and recent construct types specific to English.
Chapters 5 and 6 focus respectively on analogical and imaginative
aspects of neologistic creation and the roles of metaphor and
metonymy. In chapters 7 and 8 the author considers the influence of
folk etymology and tabu, and the cycle of loss of expressivity and
its renewal. After outlining the phonological structure of words
and its role in word abridgements, he examines the acoustic and
perceptual motivation of word forms. He then devotes four chapters
to aspects and functions of truncation and to reduplicative and
conjunctive formations. In the final chapter he looks at the
relationship between core and expressive morphology and the role of
punning and other forms of language play, before summarizing his
arguments and findings and setting out avenues for future research.
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