Expanding the Lexicon: Linguistic Innovation, Morphological Productivity, and Ludicity

by Sabine Arndt-Lappe (Editor), Angelika Braun (Editor), Claudine Moulin (Editor), Esme Winter-Froemel (Editor)

Overview

The creation of new lexical units and patterns has been studied in different research frameworks, focusing on either system-internal or system-external aspects, from which no comprehensive view has emerged. The volume aims to fill this gap by studying dynamic processes in the lexicon – understood in a wide sense as not being necessarily limited to the word level – by bringing together approaches directed to morphological productivity as well as approaches analyzing general types of lexical innovation and the role of discourse-related factors. The papers deal with ongoing changes as well as with historical processes of change in different languages and reflect on patterns and specific subtypes of lexical innovation as well as on their external conditions and the speakers’ motivations for innovating. Moreover, the diffusion and conventionalization of innovations will be addressed. In this way, the volume contributes to understanding the complex interplay of structural, cognitive and functional factors in the lexicon as a highly dynamic domain.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110500844
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	01/22/2018
Series:	The Dynamics of Wordplay , #5
Pages:	310
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Sabine Arndt-Lappe, Angelika Braun, Claudine Moulin and Esme Winter-Froemel, University of Trier, Germany.

Sabine Arndt-Lappe, Angelika Braun, Claudine Moulin and Esme Winter-Froemel, University of Trier, Germany.

Table of Contents

Expanding the Lexicon: At the crossroads of innovation, productivity, and ludicity Sabine Arndt-Lappe Angelika Braun Claudine Moulin Esme Winter-Froemel 1

I Linguistic Innovation

Expanding the lexicon through formulaic patterns Natalia Filatkina 15

Complex words in the early medieval Leges Barbarorum and their contribution to expanding the Old High German lexicon Anette Kremer Stefanie Stricker 43

Free usage of German unique components Sören Stumpf 67

II Morphological Productivity

The phonetics of newly derived words: Testing the effect of morphological segmentability on affix duration Ingo Plag Sonia Ben Hedia 93

How stress reflects meaning Marcel Schlechtweg 117

Expanding the lexicon by truncation: Variability, recoverability, and productivity Sabine Arndt-Lappe 141

III Ludicity

Approaching wordplay from the angle of phonology and phonetics - example from German Angelika Braun 173

Playful nonce-formations in French: Creativity and productivity Georgette Dal Flammetta Namer 203

Ludicity in lexical innovation (I) - French Esme Winter-Froemel 229

Ludicity in lexical innovation (II) - German Calaudine Moulin 261

Appendix

List of Abstracts/Liste des résumés 289

List of Contributors and Editors 297

Index 301