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The Directionality of Conversion in English - A Dia-synchronic Study (Paperback)
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The Directionality of Conversion in English - A Dia-synchronic Study (Paperback)
Series: Linguistic Insights, 59
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This book describes three of the main problems that the
word-formation process known as conversion presents, namely those
related to its definition, its delimitation, and its
directionality. The latter constitutes, however, the main focus of
the study, which is based on a corpus of over seven hundred lexical
units and, more specifically, on 231 actual noun-verb conversion
pairs. Considering that directionality is intrinsic to conversion,
the main question is whether it is always possible to establish the
direction of conversion or whether it is possible to do so only in
some cases. Moreover, the study reveals what 'type' of
directionality is involved, that is, whether the process is
unidirectional, bidirectional or multi-directional. In order to
answer these questions, both diachronic (etymology and dates of
first records) and synchronic criteria (semantic dependence,
restriction of usage, semantic range, semantic pattern, phonetic
shape, morphologic type, stress, and the principle of relative
markedness) are analysed and assessed.
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