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Suffixal Rivalry in Adjective Formation - A Cognitive-corpus Analysis (Hardcover, New)
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Suffixal Rivalry in Adjective Formation - A Cognitive-corpus Analysis (Hardcover, New)
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This book deals with adjectival suffixes in English. Its scope of
analysis is confined to the formation of adjective pairs that share
a single root but end in different suffixes. Theoretically, the
book adopts cognitive semantics and attempts to substantiate some
of its tenets. One tenet is that a linguistic item is polysemous by
nature. On this basis, the goal is to show that an adjectival
suffix forms a category consisting of multiple senses, which gather
around a centre. Another tenet is that the meaning of a linguistic
item is described relative to the domain of knowledge to which it
belongs. In this respect, the goal is to group the adjectival
suffixes into sets, where they stand for one concept but differ in
the specifics. A further tenet is that the use of a linguistic item
is governed by the particular construal imposed on its content. In
this regard, the goal is show that no two adjectives are synonymous
even if they share the same root or look similar. They differ, as
evidenced by corpus data, in terms of the alternate ways the
speaker construes their common root. Empirically, the book adopts
corpus linguistics, which helps to identify the distinctive
collocates associated with the members of an adjective pair and,
consequently, reveals the subtle differences in meaning between
them.
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