On concatenative and nonconcatenative lexeme-formation patterns in English

• Authors: Klégr Aleš
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper borrows the concept of (non)concatenation from morphology and applies it to wordformation patterns both within and outside the scope of derivational morphology, arguing at the same time for a broader, lexicological approach to lexeme-formation (as a model of vocabulary expansion) than that identifying word-formation with derivational morphology. It arrives at the conclusion that the binary division of lexeme-formation into either concatenative or nonconcatenative patterns does not reflect the character of many patterns accurately enough.

Keywords

EN

word-formation; derivational morphology lexeme-formation pattern concatenative; nonconcatenative

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Linguistica Pragensia
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 89-102

Contributors

author

Klégr Aleš

• Linguistica Pragensia Department of English Language and ELT Methodology Faculty of Arts, Charles University