I. Aronoff, Selkirk and Lieber on the structure of the English lexicon and the nature and use of word-formation rules.
In the wake of Chomsky's "Remarks on Nominalization" (1970), in which Chomsky makes a strict distinction between syntax and derivational morphology, Aronoff (1976) proposes a word based theory of the lexicon. This lexicon is a separate component of the grammar in which derivational word formation processes are dealt with. This hypothesis is called strong lexicalist hypothesis. Aronoff suggests that inflection and compounding are not taking place in the lexicon but in the syntax (Spencer 1991: 82). As to the nature of the listed lexical items Aronoff does not go along with Halle who in 1973 assumed that the lexicon is made up of three lists: a list of morphemes, a list of actual words, and a list of words that are regularly formed but are non-existent (McCarthy 1992: 25). In his theory Aronoff reduces the three lists to one single list, stating that it could only be words that are listed in the lexicon, not morphemes. A reason for this assumption is that morphemes, other than words, are not persistent in meaning and sometimes they do not seem to have any meaning at all. A good example for meaningless morphemes are the so-called cranberry morphemes.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Aronoff, Selkirk and Lieber on the structure of the English lexicon and the nature and use of word-formation rules
- The structure of English compounds and the basis of their interpretation
- The characteristics of derivation (affixation and conversion) as word formation process in English
- Bibliography
Zielsetzung und Themenschwerpunkte
Der Text befasst sich mit der Struktur des englischen Lexikons und der Funktionsweise der Wortbildungsprozesse. Er analysiert verschiedene Theorien von Aronoff, Selkirk und Lieber, die sich mit der Organisation des Lexikons und der Rolle von Wortbildungsregeln befassen. Der Text untersucht die Produktivität von Wortbildungsregeln, die Unterscheidung zwischen Derivation und Komposition, die Struktur von Komposita und die Rolle der Affixation bei der Wortbildung.
- Die Struktur des englischen Lexikons
- Wortbildungsregeln und ihre Produktivität
- Die Unterscheidung zwischen Derivation und Komposition
- Die Struktur von Komposita
- Die Rolle der Affixation bei der Wortbildung
Zusammenfassung der Kapitel
- Aronoff, Selkirk and Lieber on the structure of the English lexicon and the nature and use of word-formation rules
- Aronoff's word-based theory of the lexicon, which argues that the lexicon is a separate component of the grammar where derivational word formation processes are dealt with.
- Aronoff's concept of the lexicon as a list of words, not morphemes, and the criteria for listing words in the lexicon, including arbitrariness and semantic coherence.
- Selkirk's lexicalist theory, which emphasizes the formal similarities between word structure and syntactic structure and uses X-bar theory to analyze morphological categories.
- Lieber's strong lexicalist theory, which initially proposed a lexicon consisting only of underived items but later moved towards a model that incorporates interaction between syntax and morphology.
- The structure of English compounds and the basis of their interpretation
- The distinction between primary and synthetic compounds, and Selkirk's analysis of compound structure using WSRs.
- Selkirk's account for gaps in the English compound paradigm and the role of back-formation in generating pseudocompound verbs.
- The semantic relations between head and modifier in compounds, including head-modifier, predicate-argument, and apposition.
- Lieber's theory of compound formation as a syntactic process, with emphasis on subcategorization requirements and feature percolation conventions.
- The characteristics of derivation (affixation and conversion) as word formation process in English
- The distinction between prefixes and suffixes, and the role of affixes in determining the lexical category of derived words.
- Selkirk's classification of derivational affixes into class I and class II affixes, based on their attachment to roots or words.
- Lieber's approach to affixation, which emphasizes subcategorization requirements and feature percolation conventions.
- The phenomenon of conversion as a derivational process based on semantic shift without affixation.
- Lieber's view of conversion as a redundancy rule within the lexicon, arguing that it is less costly to have multiple uses of existing lexical items than to create new items for single uses.
Schlüsselwörter
Die Schlüsselwörter und Schwerpunktthemen des Textes umfassen die Struktur des englischen Lexikons, Wortbildungsprozesse, Derivation, Komposition, Affixation, Konversion, Lexikalismus, Produktivität, Arbitrarität und semantische Kohärenz. Der Text analysiert verschiedene Theorien zur Organisation des Lexikons und zur Funktionsweise von Wortbildungsregeln im Englischen, wobei er die Ansätze von Aronoff, Selkirk und Lieber vergleicht und kritisch beleuchtet.
- Quote paper
- Johannes Klaas (Author), 1998, English Word Formation, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/722
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