This volume brings together cutting-edge research on the semantic properties of derived words and the processes by which these words are derived. To this day, many of these processes remain under-researched and the nature of meaning in derivational morphology remains ill-understood. All eight articles have an empirical focus and rely on carefully collected sets of data. At the same time, the contributions represent a broad variety of approaches. Several contributions deal with specific problems of the pairing of form and meaning, such as the rivalry between nominalizing suffixes or the semantic categories encoded by conversion pairs. Other articles tackle the more general question of how meaning is organized, e.g. whether there is evidence for the paradigmatic organization of derived words or the reality of the inflection-derivation dichotomy. The contributions feature innovative methodologies, such as representing lexical meaning as word distribution or predicting semantic properties by means of analogical algorithms. This volume offers new and highly interesting insights into how complex words mean, and offers directions for future research in an oft-neglected field.

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Information

Publisher

De Gruyter

Year

2023

ISBN

9783111076430

Edition

Topic

Languages & Linguistics

Subtopic

Linguistics

Index

Languages & Linguistics

Title Page
Copyright
Contents
The semantics of derivational morphology: Introduction
Ghost aspect and double plurality: On the aspectual semantics of eventive conversion and -ing nominalizations in English
Eventualities in the semantics of denominal nominalizations
The meaning of zero nouns and zero verbs
Analogical modeling of derivational semantics: Two case studies
Semantic rivalry between French deverbal neologisms in -age, -ion and -ment
Quantifying semantic relatedness across base verbs and derivatives: English out-prefixation
Distributional evidence for derivational paradigms
Splitting -ly’s: Using word embeddings to distinguish derivation and inflection
Index