We invite word-formationists to revisit a number of boundaries and continua in affixation, from a... more We invite word-formationists to revisit a number of boundaries and continua in affixation, from a diachronic or synchronic perspective, through specific case studies or more theoretically oriented discussions. The list of topics includes, but is not limited to: a) derivation and inflection, b) splinters, (bound) roots, affixoids, and affixes, c) the emergence of new derivational affixes (= derivational affixization), d) affixization and other "ization" processes such as constructionalization, grammaticalization, lexicalization, and morphologization, e) evaluative and non-evaluative affixation, f) affixation and deaffixation (= back-formation), g) affixes in language contact situations.
This chapter provides an overview of the study of competition in word-formation theories, drawing... more This chapter provides an overview of the study of competition in word-formation theories, drawing on the findings of the ten chapters collected in this volume and other recent contributions. It explores recurrent issues regarding (i) the triggers and outcomes of competition, (ii) the variety of competing forms, and (iii) the synonymy condition for competition. With respect to the first set of research questions, a binary typology of form-based and meaning-based resolutions is identified, with each pole providing multiple ways to resolve competition. Next, for the form-related research questions, the distinction between macro- and micro-level competition is significant. Finally, the synonymy condition is reassessed through a careful comparison between morphologically simplex and complex lexemes, leading to a definition of competing rivals in word-formation as a set of formally suppletive morphological processes that produce propositional, near, or sense synonyms.
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2015
This article offers a contrastive description of the phenomenon of false Anglicization in French ... more This article offers a contrastive description of the phenomenon of false Anglicization in French and Bulgarian. French has about twice as many false Anglicisms (FA) as Bulgarian, but the distribution of the different processes of false Anglicization is very much the same, with two major processes – ellipsis and resemanticization – each accounting for about 40% of all FAs in the two languages, and a third process – compounding – accounting for another 10% of the two datasets. French contrasts with Bulgarian in its variety of lexical types and boasts a number of adjectival and verbal units, two categories which are virtually absent in Bulgarian. Another noteworthy fact is that the two languages share a considerable number of items: Bulgarian shares about 40% of its units with French, and French about 20% of its units with Bulgarian.
This 2017 Language issue of Textus intends to celebrate the 30th anniversary since the publicatio... more This 2017 Language issue of Textus intends to celebrate the 30th anniversary since the publication of George Lakoff\u2019s Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind, a landmark book that is unanimously considered crucial to any linguist who is eager to understand how human beings gain knowledge of the world, categorise it, and talk about it. The basic tenet that categorisation is central \u201cto thought, perception, action, and speech\u201d (Lakoff 1987: 5) had already been partially advanced seven years before in Lakoff and Mark Johnson\u2019s cutting-edge volume Metaphors We Live By, where the authors proposed the \u201cConceptual Metaphor Theory\u201d that marked the breakthrough of Cognitive Linguistics and still plays a pivotal role to further research in a relatively disparate array of fields, such as discourse studies, lexicology, morphology, grammatical analysis, translation, and multimodality, to name just a few. The articles that comprise this issue of Textus take the veil from Lakoff\u2019s innovative work on categories (1987) and bank on the bulk of literature that has been produced in the Functional-Cognitive Linguistics community over the last thirty years, with a view to exploring the inextricable interconnections between thought and language in figurativity in an array of topics that range from word-formation, verb semantics, lexicon and lexically-specified constructions to cognitive translation studies, forensic linguistics, ESP, and multimodality, also placing the emphasis on the potential developments in future research
Figurativity has attracted scholars’ attention for thousands of years and yet there are still ope... more Figurativity has attracted scholars’ attention for thousands of years and yet there are still open questions concerning its nature. Figurativity and Human Ecology endorses a view of figurativity as ubiquitous in human reasoning and language, and as a key example of how a human organism and its perceived or imagined environment co-function as a system. The volume sees figurativity not only as embedded in an environment but also as a way of acting within that environment. It places figurativity within an ecological context, and approaches it as a phenomenon which cuts across bodily, psychological, linguistic, social, cultural and natural environments. Figurativity and Human Ecology will appeal to those interested in the analysis of the all-encompassing creativity of the human mind and in the methodological difficulties associated with the study of cognition.
Compound verbs do not generally constitute an appealing area of study, as they are not wordformat... more Compound verbs do not generally constitute an appealing area of study, as they are not wordformationally uniform, and hence do not form the core in compounding studies. As far as conversion is concerned, non-compounds pose a number of problems to be resolved before attention can be paid to conversion of compounds. Clark and Clark (1979), Nagano (2007), Plag (1999) and Sándor (2007) have taken into consideration the meaning mechanisms involved in the conversion of compounds, but some peculiar meaning ...
English Studies On This Side: Post-2007 Reckonings, 2007
A very brief description The Department of British and American Studies at Sofia University is a ... more A very brief description The Department of British and American Studies at Sofia University is a rare bird among the departments which comprise the Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology. It is the only Department at which General Linguistics is taught in the target language–English. At the other departments General Linguistics is taught in Bulgarian by lecturers from the Faculty of Slavic Studies.
The paper focuses on the study of a rarity in the Bulgarian language – phrasal com-<br> pou... more The paper focuses on the study of a rarity in the Bulgarian language – phrasal com-<br> pounds (PCs). Although not recorded in the Bulgarian National Corpus (BulNC),<br> such compounds have successfully infiltrated the language of lifestyle magazines<br> and the jargon of tourism. Although it does not attempt to provide a quantitative<br> study, this paper reviews the properties of PCs in Bulgarian against a checklist of<br> cross-linguistically recognised properties of PCs, gleaned from the growing body<br> of literature on this type of compound. An explanation for the appearance and na-<br> ture of PCs in Bulgarian is sought in their being offshoots of the recent accommoda-<br> tion in the language of a novel subordinative, modifying [N 1 N 2 /N 2 N 1 ] N compound<br> type. From lexical or "matter" borrowing, root [N 1 N 2 /N 2 N 1 ] N of a determinative<br> type established themselves as a new strategy within c...
The classificatory scheme one uses and the framework of analysis one applies often skew the ident... more The classificatory scheme one uses and the framework of analysis one applies often skew the identification and interpretation of compounds. Traditionally compounds have been divided into synthetic (also called deverbal) such as horse-riding, house-trained and root (also called primary) compounds such as apple pie, snow ball (ten Hacken 2010; Scalise and Bisetto 2009). This classificatory scheme has influenced the understanding and analysis of compounds. The traditional classification described above has been ...
The paper focuses on the study of a rarity in the Bulgarian language – phrasal compounds (PCs). A... more The paper focuses on the study of a rarity in the Bulgarian language – phrasal compounds (PCs). Although not recorded in the Bulgarian National Corpus (BulNC), such compounds have successfully infiltrated the language of lifestyle magazines and the jargon of tourism. Although it does not attempt to provide a quantitative study, this paper reviews the properties of PCs in Bulgarian against a checklist of cross-linguistically recognised properties of PCs, gleaned from the growing body of literature on this type of compound. An explanation for the appearance and nature of PCs in Bulgarian is sought in their being offshoots of the recent accommodation in the language of a novel subordinative, modifying [N1N2/N2N1]N compound type. From lexical or “matter” borrowing, root [N1N2/N2N1]N of a determinative type established themselves as a new strategy within compounding, recognisable as structural or “pattern” borrowing via upward strengthening, and paved the way for PCs.
We invite word-formationists to revisit a number of boundaries and continua in affixation, from a... more We invite word-formationists to revisit a number of boundaries and continua in affixation, from a diachronic or synchronic perspective, through specific case studies or more theoretically oriented discussions. The list of topics includes, but is not limited to: a) derivation and inflection, b) splinters, (bound) roots, affixoids, and affixes, c) the emergence of new derivational affixes (= derivational affixization), d) affixization and other "ization" processes such as constructionalization, grammaticalization, lexicalization, and morphologization, e) evaluative and non-evaluative affixation, f) affixation and deaffixation (= back-formation), g) affixes in language contact situations.
This chapter provides an overview of the study of competition in word-formation theories, drawing... more This chapter provides an overview of the study of competition in word-formation theories, drawing on the findings of the ten chapters collected in this volume and other recent contributions. It explores recurrent issues regarding (i) the triggers and outcomes of competition, (ii) the variety of competing forms, and (iii) the synonymy condition for competition. With respect to the first set of research questions, a binary typology of form-based and meaning-based resolutions is identified, with each pole providing multiple ways to resolve competition. Next, for the form-related research questions, the distinction between macro- and micro-level competition is significant. Finally, the synonymy condition is reassessed through a careful comparison between morphologically simplex and complex lexemes, leading to a definition of competing rivals in word-formation as a set of formally suppletive morphological processes that produce propositional, near, or sense synonyms.
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2015
This article offers a contrastive description of the phenomenon of false Anglicization in French ... more This article offers a contrastive description of the phenomenon of false Anglicization in French and Bulgarian. French has about twice as many false Anglicisms (FA) as Bulgarian, but the distribution of the different processes of false Anglicization is very much the same, with two major processes – ellipsis and resemanticization – each accounting for about 40% of all FAs in the two languages, and a third process – compounding – accounting for another 10% of the two datasets. French contrasts with Bulgarian in its variety of lexical types and boasts a number of adjectival and verbal units, two categories which are virtually absent in Bulgarian. Another noteworthy fact is that the two languages share a considerable number of items: Bulgarian shares about 40% of its units with French, and French about 20% of its units with Bulgarian.
This 2017 Language issue of Textus intends to celebrate the 30th anniversary since the publicatio... more This 2017 Language issue of Textus intends to celebrate the 30th anniversary since the publication of George Lakoff\u2019s Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind, a landmark book that is unanimously considered crucial to any linguist who is eager to understand how human beings gain knowledge of the world, categorise it, and talk about it. The basic tenet that categorisation is central \u201cto thought, perception, action, and speech\u201d (Lakoff 1987: 5) had already been partially advanced seven years before in Lakoff and Mark Johnson\u2019s cutting-edge volume Metaphors We Live By, where the authors proposed the \u201cConceptual Metaphor Theory\u201d that marked the breakthrough of Cognitive Linguistics and still plays a pivotal role to further research in a relatively disparate array of fields, such as discourse studies, lexicology, morphology, grammatical analysis, translation, and multimodality, to name just a few. The articles that comprise this issue of Textus take the veil from Lakoff\u2019s innovative work on categories (1987) and bank on the bulk of literature that has been produced in the Functional-Cognitive Linguistics community over the last thirty years, with a view to exploring the inextricable interconnections between thought and language in figurativity in an array of topics that range from word-formation, verb semantics, lexicon and lexically-specified constructions to cognitive translation studies, forensic linguistics, ESP, and multimodality, also placing the emphasis on the potential developments in future research
Figurativity has attracted scholars’ attention for thousands of years and yet there are still ope... more Figurativity has attracted scholars’ attention for thousands of years and yet there are still open questions concerning its nature. Figurativity and Human Ecology endorses a view of figurativity as ubiquitous in human reasoning and language, and as a key example of how a human organism and its perceived or imagined environment co-function as a system. The volume sees figurativity not only as embedded in an environment but also as a way of acting within that environment. It places figurativity within an ecological context, and approaches it as a phenomenon which cuts across bodily, psychological, linguistic, social, cultural and natural environments. Figurativity and Human Ecology will appeal to those interested in the analysis of the all-encompassing creativity of the human mind and in the methodological difficulties associated with the study of cognition.
Compound verbs do not generally constitute an appealing area of study, as they are not wordformat... more Compound verbs do not generally constitute an appealing area of study, as they are not wordformationally uniform, and hence do not form the core in compounding studies. As far as conversion is concerned, non-compounds pose a number of problems to be resolved before attention can be paid to conversion of compounds. Clark and Clark (1979), Nagano (2007), Plag (1999) and Sándor (2007) have taken into consideration the meaning mechanisms involved in the conversion of compounds, but some peculiar meaning ...
English Studies On This Side: Post-2007 Reckonings, 2007
A very brief description The Department of British and American Studies at Sofia University is a ... more A very brief description The Department of British and American Studies at Sofia University is a rare bird among the departments which comprise the Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology. It is the only Department at which General Linguistics is taught in the target language–English. At the other departments General Linguistics is taught in Bulgarian by lecturers from the Faculty of Slavic Studies.
The paper focuses on the study of a rarity in the Bulgarian language – phrasal com-<br> pou... more The paper focuses on the study of a rarity in the Bulgarian language – phrasal com-<br> pounds (PCs). Although not recorded in the Bulgarian National Corpus (BulNC),<br> such compounds have successfully infiltrated the language of lifestyle magazines<br> and the jargon of tourism. Although it does not attempt to provide a quantitative<br> study, this paper reviews the properties of PCs in Bulgarian against a checklist of<br> cross-linguistically recognised properties of PCs, gleaned from the growing body<br> of literature on this type of compound. An explanation for the appearance and na-<br> ture of PCs in Bulgarian is sought in their being offshoots of the recent accommoda-<br> tion in the language of a novel subordinative, modifying [N 1 N 2 /N 2 N 1 ] N compound<br> type. From lexical or "matter" borrowing, root [N 1 N 2 /N 2 N 1 ] N of a determinative<br> type established themselves as a new strategy within c...
The classificatory scheme one uses and the framework of analysis one applies often skew the ident... more The classificatory scheme one uses and the framework of analysis one applies often skew the identification and interpretation of compounds. Traditionally compounds have been divided into synthetic (also called deverbal) such as horse-riding, house-trained and root (also called primary) compounds such as apple pie, snow ball (ten Hacken 2010; Scalise and Bisetto 2009). This classificatory scheme has influenced the understanding and analysis of compounds. The traditional classification described above has been ...
The paper focuses on the study of a rarity in the Bulgarian language – phrasal compounds (PCs). A... more The paper focuses on the study of a rarity in the Bulgarian language – phrasal compounds (PCs). Although not recorded in the Bulgarian National Corpus (BulNC), such compounds have successfully infiltrated the language of lifestyle magazines and the jargon of tourism. Although it does not attempt to provide a quantitative study, this paper reviews the properties of PCs in Bulgarian against a checklist of cross-linguistically recognised properties of PCs, gleaned from the growing body of literature on this type of compound. An explanation for the appearance and nature of PCs in Bulgarian is sought in their being offshoots of the recent accommodation in the language of a novel subordinative, modifying [N1N2/N2N1]N compound type. From lexical or “matter” borrowing, root [N1N2/N2N1]N of a determinative type established themselves as a new strategy within compounding, recognisable as structural or “pattern” borrowing via upward strengthening, and paved the way for PCs.
This volume focuses on a number of interrelated issues in the theorizing and interpretation of mo... more This volume focuses on a number of interrelated issues in the theorizing and interpretation of morphological rivalry, including the differences between a semasiological and an onomasiological approach to competition phenomena in word-formation, the scope of such phenomena (micro-level rivalry between individual affixes, as well as macro-level competition between different processes), the different sources of competition, and the possible resolutions of competitive situations. An overview of existing research in the field is provided, as well as new, cutting-edge findings and proposals for analytical innovation. Linguistic data are drawn from European and Asian languages, and morphologists, semanticists, and anyone interested in the dynamics of language will be stimulated by the analytical models and explanations offered in the 11 chapters.
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a) derivation and inflection,
b) splinters, (bound) roots, affixoids, and affixes,
c) the emergence of new derivational affixes (= derivational affixization),
d) affixization and other "ization" processes such as constructionalization, grammaticalization, lexicalization, and morphologization,
e) evaluative and non-evaluative affixation,
f) affixation and deaffixation (= back-formation),
g) affixes in language contact situations.
a) derivation and inflection,
b) splinters, (bound) roots, affixoids, and affixes,
c) the emergence of new derivational affixes (= derivational affixization),
d) affixization and other "ization" processes such as constructionalization, grammaticalization, lexicalization, and morphologization,
e) evaluative and non-evaluative affixation,
f) affixation and deaffixation (= back-formation),
g) affixes in language contact situations.