“Directionality and productivity of backderivation as a synchronic and diachronic process: dictionary and corpus analysis”.

• Authors: Grzegorz Wlaźlak

Abstracts

PL

Back-derivation is an example of a non-affixative word-forming process in which an affix is removed to create a semantically corresponding verb [Bauer, Lieber, Plague 2013, 280]. This common phenomenon in English mostly occurs in the area of lexis borrowed from classical languages. The author focuses on directionality as a diachronic problem, and productivity of the process in a synchronic perspective. In order to trace the phenomenon of directionality, material from the source languages is collected chronologically. As for the phenomenon of productivity, quantitative analysis is based on attestations in text corpora and dictionaries. The author examines occurrences of this mechanism and its influence with respect to the creation of similar forms in scientific and specialist language.

EN

Backderivation is an example of a non-affixative word-forming process in which an affix is removed to create a semantically corresponding verb (Bauer, Lieber, Plague 2013: 280). This common phenomenon in English mostly occurs in the area of lexis borrowed from classical languages. The author focuses on directionality as a diachronic problem, and productivity of the process in a synchronic perspective. In order to trace the phenomenon of directionality, material from the source languages is collected chronologically. As for the phenomenon of productivity, quantitative analysis bases on attestations in text corpora and dictionaries. The author examines occurrences of this mechanism and its influence on the creation of similar forms in scientific and specialist language.

Keywords

PL

back-derivation; directionality; productivity; orpus analysis

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
• Journal: Acta Neophilologica
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 1
• Issue: XXIV
• Pages: 111-122

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Grzegorz Wlaźlak

• Politechnika Śląska, Instytut Badań nad Edukacją i Komunikacją

• https://orcid.org/0000000343719245

Identifiers

DOI

10.31648/an.6443

Biblioteka Nauki

2131279