Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Slavic Linguistics
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Slavic Linguistics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part 1 Prosody and Phonology
- Part 2 Inflectional and Derivational Morphology
- 7 Inflectional Endings: Declensions
- 8 Inflectional Endings: Conjugation
- 9 Tense and Mood Forms
- 10 Aspect in Verbs
- 11 Lexical Derivation
- 12 Lexical Composition
- Part 3 Syntax
- Part 4 Lexicon
- Part 5 Sociolinguistic and Geographical Approaches
- Part 6 Experimental and Quantitative Approaches
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- References
11 - Lexical Derivation
from Part 2 - Inflectional and Derivational Morphology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2024
- The Cambridge Handbook of Slavic Linguistics
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Slavic Linguistics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part 1 Prosody and Phonology
- Part 2 Inflectional and Derivational Morphology
- 7 Inflectional Endings: Declensions
- 8 Inflectional Endings: Conjugation
- 9 Tense and Mood Forms
- 10 Aspect in Verbs
- 11 Lexical Derivation
- 12 Lexical Composition
- Part 3 Syntax
- Part 4 Lexicon
- Part 5 Sociolinguistic and Geographical Approaches
- Part 6 Experimental and Quantitative Approaches
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- References
Summary
The present chapter summarizes the patterns of lexical derivation in Slavic languages. Lexical derivation is presented here as word formation. Words are formed in the sentence by word-structure rules that expand root categories like N and A to derived structures like N[A–N] and A[N–A], followed by the lexicalization of the root and suffix categories with morphemes from the lexicon. Differing from the morpheme approach to morphology is the word approach, which assumes a lexicon of words and favors processes over items. The author presents basic patterns of prefixation, suffixation, and suffixless recategorization.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Slavic Linguistics , pp. 234 - 244Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024