Essays about: "prefixation"

Found 4 essays containing the word prefixation.

1. 1. Selected topics in the grammar and lexicon of Matal

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

   Author : Allahverdi Verdizade; [2018]
   Keywords : Matal; Chadic languages; verbal morphology; Afroasiatic languages; Cameroon; parallel text; under-documented langauges; Matal; tchadspråk; verbmorfologi; afroasiatiska språk; Kamerun; parallelltext; underdocumenterade språk;

   Abstract : This thesis describes basic grammatical features and lexicon of Matal, a Chadic language spoken by around 18 000 people in northern Cameroon. A translation of the New Testament is used as a parallel text for the purposes of this study. The identified language structures are compared with other Chadic languages. READ MORE

3. 2. Beauty and the Blend : Implications of Cognitive Constraints and Word Class Distribution in Lexical Blending

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Daniel Kjellander; [2015]
   Keywords : Blending; wordplay; word formation; morphology.;

   Abstract : This master thesis investigates underlying principles and usage-based aspects of lexical blending. In a corpus study examining the lexical items, or matrix words, republican, liberal, and vegetarian it was found that there were three cognitive constraints influencing their potential to form blends. READ MORE

4. 3. Productivity Measurements Applied to Ten English Prefixes : A comparison of different measures of morphological productivity based on ten prefixes in English

   University essay from Engelska institutionen

   Author : Linnéa Joandi; [2012]
   Keywords : Morphological productivity; word-formation; prefixation; type frequency; token frequency; hapax legomena; Productivity in the narrow sense ;

   Abstract : Morphological productivity is difficult to define and describe. Nevertheless have several measures been proposed by scholars, in order to quantify this notion. This paper investigates ten common English prefixes with meanings related to degree or size. READ MORE

5. 4. (A)rise and (a)wake : An investigation of two verb pairs

   University essay from Institutionen för humaniora

   Author : Alexander Lakaw; [2008]
   Keywords : corpus linguistics; degrammaticalization; grammaticalization; language change; morphology; prefixation; synonymy; semantic prosody;

   Abstract : In this corpus-based study, the two verb pairs arise and rise and awake and wake are investigated. The paper focuses on seven research questions that are related to the meanings of the verbs in question, the semantic specialisations of those verbs, and the semantic relation of the specific verb pair constituents. READ MORE