Browsing by Author "Dressler, Wolfgang U."
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Item Change and Variation w Morphonotactics(Folia Linguistica 31, 2010, s. 51-67, 2010) Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, Katarzyna; Dressler, Wolfgang U.; Pestal, LinaIn this contribution we discuss diachronic and variationist aspects of morphonotactics, a new research field that we have tried to establish over the last years (cf. Dressler & Dziubalska-Kołaczyk 2006). Morphonotactics is the area of interaction between morphotactics and phonotactics and represents a subfield of morphonology, which in turn is the area of interaction between morphology and phonology (cf. Dressler 1985, 1996). We claim that in this interaction morphotactics typically creates phonotactically marked structures which occur never or only exceptionally in monomorphemic words. In our contribution we deal with typical diachronic changes. Our claim about the markedness of morphonotactic sequences is tested mainly against data from Polish, Lithuanian and other Balto-Slavic languages. Our theoretical basis draws on models of Natural Phonology (cf. Hurch & Rhodes 1996, Dziubalska- Kołaczyk & Weckwerth 2002) and Natural Morphology (cf. Dressler et al. 1987, Kilani-Schoch & Dressler 2005), and especially on the subtheories of universal markedness (or universal preferences) and of typological adequacy.Item Proposing Morphonotactics(Rivista di Linguistica 18.2 (2006) pp. 249-266., 2006) Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, Katarzyna; Dressler, Wolfgang U.Item Sources of markedness in language structures(Folia Linguistica Historica, 2001, t. 22/1-2, pp.103 -135., 2001) Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, Katarzyna; Dressler, Wolfgang U.; Spina, RossellaItem The morphosemantic transparency/opacity of novel English analogical compounds and compound families(Adam Mickiewicz University, 2018) Mattiello, Elisa; Dressler, Wolfgang U.This study deals with novel English analogical compounds, i.e. compounds obtained via either a unique model (e.g. beefcake after cheesecake) or a schema model: e.g., green-collar based on white-collar, blue-collar, pink-collar, and other X-collar compounds. The study aims, first, to inspect whether novel analogical compounds maintain the same degree of morphosemantic transparency/opacity as their models, and, second, to find out the role played by the compound constituents in the constitution of compound families, such as X-collar and others. To these aims, the study proposes a scale of morphosemantic transparency/opacity for the analysis of compound constituents. In particular, the compound constituents in our database (115 examples) are analysed in connection with: 1) their degree of transparency (vs. opacity, including metaphorical/metonymic meaning), linked to their semantic contribution in the construction of the whole compound’s meaning, and 2) their part-of-speech. Against the common assumption that productive word-formation rules mostly create morphosemantically transparent new words, or that rule productivity is closely connected with transparency, the study of our database demonstrates that novel analogical compounds tend to maintain the same transparency/opacity degree as their models. It also shows that, in nuclear families and subfamilies of compounds, the part-of-speech of the constituents, their degree of transparency/opacity, and their semantic relation are reproduced in all members of the analogical set.