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The Semantics of Derivational Morphology: A Synchronic and Diachronic Investigation of the Suffixes -age and -ery in English

By Marion Schulte

Book information

Publisher
Narr Francke Attempto; 1. Edition
Year
2015
ISBN
3823369636, 9783823369639
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2217221 bytes)
Series
Language in Performance
Pages
245\252
Time added
2024-11-17 09:15:55

Description

This book presents a synchronic and diachronic investigation of two derivational English affixes. The suffixes -age and -ery are analysed on the basis of dictionary and corpus data and an adapted semantic map method is introduced as a new way of accounting for the semantic structure of derivatives. This study shows that the semantic structure of morphological categories can change signi ficantly over time, and that semantic maps can represent this change in a straightforward manner. The semantic maps visualise the relations and interdependencies of the readings expressed by derivatives, which leads to a new understanding of the semantic complexity of these categories.

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