Directionality and Productivity of Back-derivation as a Synchronic and Diachronic Process: Dictionary and Corpus Analysis
Grzegorz Wlaźlak
Politechnika Śląska, Instytut Badań nad Edukacją i KomunikacjąAbstrakt
Back-derivation is an example of a non-affixative word-forming process in which an affix is removed to create a semantically corresponding verb [Bauer, Lieber, Plague 2013, 280]. This common phenomenon in English mostly occurs in the area of lexis borrowed from classical languages. The author focuses on directionality as a diachronic problem, and productivity of the process in a synchronic perspective. In order to trace the phenomenon of directionality, material from the source languages is collected chronologically. As for the phenomenon of productivity, quantitative analysis is based on attestations in text corpora and dictionaries. The author examines occurrences of this mechanism and its influence with respect to the creation of similar forms in scientific and specialist language.
Słowa kluczowe:
back-derivation, directionality, productivity, orpus analysisBibliografia
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Marchand Hans. 1960. Categories and Types of Present-Day English Word-formation. München: Beck.
Mayerthaler Willi. 1981. Morphologische Natürlichkeit. Wiesbaden: Athenaion.
OED. 1989. Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition (2009). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Pennanen Esko. 1966. Contributions to the Study of Back-Formation in English. Acta Academiae Socialis Ser. A, vol. 4 (Vammala 1966). Tampere.
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Wlaźlak, G. (2022). Directionality and Productivity of Back-derivation as a Synchronic and Diachronic Process: Dictionary and Corpus Analysis. Acta Neophilologica, 1(XXIV), 111–122. https://doi.org/10.31648/an.6443
Grzegorz Wlaźlak
Politechnika Śląska, Instytut Badań nad Edukacją i Komunikacją
Politechnika Śląska, Instytut Badań nad Edukacją i Komunikacją
