Lexical creativity and the organization of the lexicon
Autor/a
Vallès-Botey, Teresa
Fecha de publicación
2003-01ISBN
9789027254818
ISSN
1572–0268
Resumen
The aim of this paper is to show that lexical creativity and the organization of the lexicon are “mutually enlightening” realities. Using of Catalan neologisms, I take advantage of Bybee’s (2001: 109) insight that “any multi- morphemic word or sequence is highly embedded in connections with other words containing at least one of the same morphemes.” I argue for the validity of Bybee’s model over and beyond its use in inflectional processes, by developing an analysis of neologisms in which derivation and analogy play a key role. In the light of the theory on paradigmatic relations framing the lexicon (cf. van Marle 1985), I advance the hypothesis that lexical creativity is the external manifestation of the lexicon’s intrinsic organization. Specifically, I show the dynamic role that two main types of paradigmatic relations (derivational categories and word families) play in lexical creativity. Because both of them are based on morpheme-to-morpheme relations among words, I emphasize this kind of relations in network representations. In particular, I show that low-level network patterns used in neology are suggestive evidence of a fuzzy boundary between derivation and analogy.
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Artículo
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Inglés
Materias (CDU)
80 - Cuestiones generales relativas a la lingüística y literatura. Filología
81 - Lingüística y lenguas
Palabras clave
Lexicologia
Lexicology
Lexicología
Analogia (Lingüística)
Analogy (Linguistics)
Analogía (Lingüística)
Paradigmatic relations
Morphological relations
Derivation
Páginas
25
Publicado por
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Colección
1;
Publicado en
Review of cognitive linguistics
Citación
Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 1, (2003), p. 137–160.
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