Word Formation as a Naming Device
Language: English
Published by Edinburgh University Press, 2025
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- Title
- Word Formation as a Naming Device
- Author
- Pius Ten Hacken
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1474487025
- ISBN 13
- 9781474487023
Ten Hacken and Panocová present a systematic overview of how different current morphological theories account for the naming function of word formation.
Naming is an essential preliminary step for the effective use of language. In most linguistic theories, word formation is covered as a part of morphology. However, morphological theories, especially those in generative linguistics, tend to focus on the form and structure of words, rather than on their naming function. As a result, it is often not made explicit how naming is accounted for.In this book, the authors cover new ground in describing and comparing theories from this perspective. They highlight the relevance of the naming perspective in both generative and functionalist approaches and in doing so challenge the way morphological theories are received and developed. The authors develop a framework for identifying which aspects of naming have been or can be covered in each theory and evaluate the success of the resulting account. The results of this comparison can be used for the selection of theories in research and teaching.
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About the Author
Renáta Panocová is a Professor of Linguistics at the Department of British and American Studies at the Faculty of Arts of the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice. Her research focuses on word formation, language for special purposes and intercultural communication. Her latest monographs are The Vocabulary of Medical English: A Corpus-Based Study (2017) and Categories of Word Formation and Borrowing: An onomasiological account of neoclassical formations (2015). Together with Pius ten Hacken she edited The Interaction of Borrowing and Word Formation (Edinburgh University Press, 2020).
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