Teorie optimality a slovotvorba

• Authors: Stichauer Pavel

Title variants

EN

OPTIMALITY THEORY AND WORD-FORMATION

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The present article is a brief overview of some of the papers that have recently attempted to apply Optimality Theory (OT) to word-formation. After an introduction to the main ideas of OT, a survey of some of the most important constraints on word-formation processes is presented. Against the background of two French nouns, 'avionneur' and 'campaniste', widely discussed in Dal & Namer (2005) and J. Stichauer (2006), respectively, it is argued that an OT account that would go beyond the well-established phonological constraints, trying to integrate some of the semantic ones, would encounter problems. In fact, it is not clear under what ranking and under what exact constraints other possible outputs (e.g. 'avionniste' versus 'avionneur', 'campanier' versus 'campaniste') are to be evaluated. Nevertheless, the idea of constraint interaction, based on a ranking of violable restrictions, is emphasized as an interesting framework quite different from the classic rule/exception dichotomy.

Keywords

EN

OPTIMALITY THEORY; WORD-FORMATION

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovo a slovesnost: časopis pro otázky teorie a kultury jazyka (Slovo a slovesnost: A journal for the theory of language and language cultivation)
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 70
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 36-49
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Stichauer Pavel

• Pavel Stichauer, Ustav romanskych studii FF UK, nam. Jana Palacha 2, Praha 1, 116 38, Czech Republic, http://dlib.lib.cas.cz/4131/

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09CZAAAA059316