Description

• Title:
  Language change and morphological processes
• Creator:
  Hamans, Camiel
• Description:
  Morphological change is not a result of mechanical, predictable processes, but of the behavior of language users. Speakers reinterpret opaque data in order to assign a more transparent structure to them. Subsequently successful reinterpretation may form the basis of new derivations. The moment such a derivative word formation process becomes productive a language change has taken place. In addition, this paper shows how language change obscures the distinction between separate morphological processes such as compounding and derivation and thus between morphological categories. Moreover, the data under discussion show that there is not a preferred natural direction of language change. Most of the examples are taken from English and Dutch, but also a few French, Frisian, German and Afrikaans data are discussed.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2017 Camiel Hamans
• Date:
  2017.12.01
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Peer-reviewed article
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Yearbook of the Poznan Linguistic Meeting; Vol. 3 No. 1 (2017); 1-23;
  Yearbook of the Poznań Linguistic Meeting; Tom 3 Nr 1 (2017); 1-23;
  2449-7525
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/yplm/article/view/26575/24189
• Subject:
  language change;
  opacity;
  reinterpretation;
  bidirectionality;
  affixoid;
  libfix;
  state of transition
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/yplm/article/view/26575
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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• Type:
  other