Titel
Scaling morphosemantic transparency/opacity: A corpus-linguistic and acquisitionist study of German diminutives
Autor*in
Sonja Schwaiger
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Autor*in
Jutta Ransmayr
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Autor*in
Katharina Korecky-Kröll
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Abstract
The judicious use of electronic corpora allows new possibilities in the study of word formation. In contrast to the usual way of contrasting morphosemantic transparency (or compositionality) and morphosemantic opacity (or non-compositionality) in a dichotomous way, we present a ten-step scale from maximum transparency to total opacity, exemplified with the common German diminutive suffixation in -chen and Austro-Bavarian -erl. Our corpus-linguistic investigation allows new insights into problems of distribution of type and token frequency according to degrees of morphosemantic transparency/ opacity and of the two rivalling diminutive formations. An analysis of diminutive acquisition is added as external evidence for or against previous claims. Acquisition data come from three longitudinal corpora and from 24 children of a transversal quasi-longitudinal study. Here the order of acquisition of diminutives according to the ten-step scale of morphosemantic transparency/opacity and to adult type and token frequency will be presented and the relation between morphosemantic and morphopragmatic meaning will be discussed.
Stichwort
diminutivesmorphosemantic transparencyword formationcorpus linguistics
Objekt-Typ
Sprache
Englisch [eng]
Persistent identifier
https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:924476
Erschienen in
Titel
Yearbook of the Poznan Linguistic Meeting
Band
3
Ausgabe
1
Seitenanfang
141
Seitenende
153
Verlag
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Zugänglichkeit
Rechteangabe
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