17.1764, Books: Morphology/Semantics: Botha

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Date: 10-Jun-2006
From: Joyce Reid < jreid at cup.org >
Subject: Form and Meaning in Word Formation: Botha 

	
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Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 09:31:35
From: Joyce Reid < jreid at cup.org >
Subject: Form and Meaning in Word Formation: Botha 
 



Title: Form and Meaning in Word Formation 
Subtitle: A Study of Afrikaans Reduplication 
Series Title: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://us.cambridge.org
	

Book URL: http://us.cambridge.org/titles/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521026130 


Author: Rudolf P. Botha

Hardback: ISBN: 0521352606 Pages: 197 Price: U.S. $ 75.00 Comment: Temporarily unavailable
Paperback: ISBN: 052102613X Pages: 197 Price: U.K. £ 16.99
Paperback: ISBN: 052102613X Pages: 197 Price: U.S. $ 28.99


Abstract:

This study of reduplication in Afrikaans provides a unified and principled
analysis of an unusual and highly complex word formation process, shedding
new light on the scope and content of various fundamental lexicalist
principles of word formation. Surprisingly, Rudolf Botha concludes that the
principles involved in Afrikaans reduplication are not unique to Afrikaans,
as has often been thought, and are used by many other languages. Moreover,
the interpretation of Afrikaans reduplications depends on principles of
conceptual structure that are restricted neither to Afrikaans nor to the
interpretation of reduplications, thus supporting recent work on cognition
and meaning undertaken by Ray Jackendoff and other scholars. 

In analysing the data, Professor Botha has also provided a concrete
illustration of how the Galilean style of linguistic inquiry can fruitfully
be applied in the study of word formation and meaning. The study thus
represents an important theoretical and methodological advance which will
be of as much interest for its method of inquiry and argumentation as for
the fresh insights it provides for scholars and researchers in the fields
of morphology, word formation and semantics. 



Acknowledgements; 
1. Introduction; 
2. Formation; 
3. Semantic interpretation; 
4. Link-up; 
5. Metascientific retrospection; 
Notes; 
References; 
Index. 


Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Semantics

Subject Language(s): Afrikaans (afr)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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