“Directionality and productivity of backderivation as a synchronic and diachronic process: dictionary and corpus analysis”.
Grzegorz Wlaźlak
Politechnika ŚląskaAbstract
Backderivation 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 bases on attestations in text corpora and dictionaries. The author examines occurrences of this mechanism and its influence on the creation of similar forms in scientific and specialist language.
Keywords:
back-derivation, directionality, productivity, orpus analysisReferences
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Langacker Ronald. 1987. Foundations of cognitive grammar. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Mańczak-Wohlfeld Elżbieta. 1995. Tendencje rozwojowe współczesnych zapożyczeń angielskich w języku polskim. Kraków: Universitas.
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.
Rainer Franz. 2004. “From Latin to French”. In: Booij, G., Lehmann, Ch., Mugdan, J., Stavros, S. (Eds.), Morphology. An International Handbook on Inflection and Word Formation. Vol. 2, pp. 1698–1712. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter.
Štekauer Pavol, Salvador Valera and Lívia Körtvélyessy. 2012. Word-Formation in the World’s Languages. A Typological Survey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Szymanek Bogdan. 1989. Introduction to Morphological Analysis. Warszawa: PWN.
Waszakowa Krystyna. 1994. Słowotwórstwo współczesnego języka polskiego. Rzeczowniki sufiksalne obce. Warszawa: PWN.
Wlaźlak, G. (2022). “Directionality and productivity of backderivation 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
Politechnika Śląska
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