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  • 6 - Compounding

  • Ingo Plag, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
  • Book:
    Word-Formation in English
    Published online:
    30 April 2019
    Print publication:
    12 July 2018, pp 131-161

  • Summary

    This chapter is concerned with compounds. Section 6.1 focuses on the basic characteristics of compounds, investigating the kinds of element compounds are made of, their internal structure, headedness, and stress patterns. This is followed by descriptions of individual compounding patterns and the discussion of the specific empirical and theoretical problems these patterns pose. In particular, nominal, adjectival, verbal, and neoclassical compounds are examined, followed by an exploration of the syntax-morphology boundary.

  • 5 - Derivation without Affixation

  • Ingo Plag, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
  • Book:
    Word-Formation in English
    Published online:
    30 April 2019
    Print publication:
    12 July 2018, pp 105-130

  • Summary

    This chapter deals with non-affixational word-formation processes. First, three major problems of conversion are discussed. This is followed by an introduction to prosodic morphology with a detailed analysis of some morphological categories that are expressed by chiefly prosodic means, such as truncated names, -y diminutives, clippings, and blends. Finally, abbreviations and acronyms are investigated.

  • 4 - Affixation

  • Ingo Plag, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
  • Book:
    Word-Formation in English
    Published online:
    30 April 2019
    Print publication:
    12 July 2018, pp 71-104

  • Summary

    This chapter provides an overview of the affixational word-formation processes of English. First, it discusses how affixes can be distinguished from other entities. This is followed by an introduction to the methodological problems of data gathering for the study of affixation through dictionaries and electronic corpora. Then some general properties that characterize the system of English affixation are introduced, and a survey of a wide range of suffixes and prefixes is presented. Finally, we investigate cases of infixation.

Word-Formation in English
  • 2nd edition
  • Ingo Plag
  • Published online:
    30 April 2019
    Print publication:
    12 July 2018
  • This book is the second edition of a highly successful introduction to the study of word-formation, that is, the ways in which new words are built on the bases of other words (e.g. happy - happy-ness), focusing on English. The book's didactic aim is to enable students with little or no prior linguistic knowledge to do their own practical analyses of complex words. Readers are familiarized with the necessary methodological tools to obtain and analyze relevant data and are shown how to relate their findings to theoretical problems and debates. The second edition incorporates new developments in morphology at both the methodological and the theoretical level. It introduces the use of new corpora and data bases, acquaints the reader with state-of-the-art computational algorithms modeling morphology, and brings in current debates and theories.

  • 7 - Theoretical Issues: Modeling Word-Formation

  • Ingo Plag, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
  • Book:
    Word-Formation in English
    Published online:
    30 April 2019
    Print publication:
    12 July 2018, pp 162-197

  • Summary

    In this chapter theories are introduced that try to find principled answers to three central problems of morphology. We will first examine approaches that try to model the interaction of phonology and morphology. This is followed by a treatment of a related problem, the ordering of affixes. In the final part of the chapter we discuss how different morphological theories conceptualize the form and nature of word-formation rules. This discussion includes word-based and morpheme-based approaches as well as computational approaches (analogical modeling and Naive Discriminative Learning).

  • What is the publication language in humanities? The case of Translation Studies scholars: The use of English as a publication language is on the rise among multilingual humanities scholars, though local language is still the dominant choice.

  • Xiangdong Li
  • Journal:
    English Today / Volume 35 / Issue 2 / June 2019
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    06 July 2018, pp. 42-49
    Print publication:
    June 2019

  • English is becoming the default language of knowledge construction and dissemination (Kuteeva & McGrath, 2014; Zheng & Gao, 2016; Fuentes & Gómez Soler, 2018). However, English as a monolingual and mono-rhetorical means of disseminating knowledge may maximize its ‘Tyrannosaurus rex’ side (Tardy, 2004; Espinet et al., 2015; Zheng & Gao, 2016). The use of English as an Academic Lingua Franca (EALF) is depicted as hegemonic, totalitarian, colonial and imperialistic, silencing other academic traditions, imposing Anglophone ideologies of norms and rhetorical conventions, and controlling other academic territories (Phillipson, 1992; Bennett, 2013). It is claimed that an orientation towards the norms and rhetorical conventions of the Anglo-Saxon discourse demotes non-English languages, cultures and rhetorical conventions (Tardy, 2004; Espinet, Izquierdo & Garcia–Pujol, 2015), disadvantages non-native English-speaking scholars and their scholarship (Flowerdew, 2013; Zheng & Gao, 2016), erodes alternative forms of knowledge construction (Martín–Martín, 2005; Bennett, 2011), and reduces intellectual, cultural and epistemological diversity (Tardy, 2004; Bennett, 2011).

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