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From: Christian Bieri [publicity at peterlang.com]
Subject: Semantics and Word Formation: Lloyd
 

	
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Title: Semantics and Word Formation 
Subtitle: The Semantic Development of Five French Suffixes in Middle English 
Series Title: Studies in Historical Linguistics - Volume 6  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: Peter Lang AG
	   http://www.peterlang.com
	
Author: Cynthia Lloyd

Paperback: ISBN:  9783039119103 Pages: 313 Price: U.S. $ 65.95
Paperback: ISBN:  9783039119103 Pages: 313 Price: U.K. £ 38.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9783039119103 Pages: 313 Price: Europe EURO 42.20 Comment: for Germany EURO 45.20, for Austria EURO 46.40 (incl. VAT)


Abstract:

This book is about the integration into English of the five nominal
suffixes -ment, -ance, -ation, -age and -al, which entered Middle English
via borrowings from French, and which now form abstract nouns by attaching
themselves to various base categories, as in cord/cordage or
adjust/adjustment. The possibility is considered that each suffix might
individually affect the general semantic profile of nouns which it forms. A
sample of first attributions from the Middle English Dictionary is analysed
for each suffix, in order to examine biases in suffixes towards certain
semantic areas. It is argued that such biases exist both in real-world
semantics, such as the choice of bases with moral or practical meanings,
and in distinct aspects of the shared core meaning of action or
collectivity expressed by the derived deverbal or denominal nouns. The
results for the ME database are then compared with the use of words in the
same suffixes across a selection of works from Shakespeare. In this way it
can be shown how such tendencies may persist or change over time. 

Contents: 

Productivity and Semantics - English and French in Medieval England - The
Suffix -ment in Middle English - The Suffix -ance/-ence in Middle English -
The Suffix -ation in Middle English - The Suffix -age in Middle English -
The Suffix -al in Middle English - Five Suffixes over Three Periods of
Middle English - Five Suffixes in Ten Plays by Shakespeare. 

Cynthia Lloyd graduated in English from the University of Bristol and
gained a research MA by thesis on connections between language and
literature in early modern English. In 1991 she read for an MA in
linguistics at the University of York, and in 2005 completed a PhD in the
field of word formation at the University of Leeds. She has taught Middle
English for the MA programme at Bristol University, humanities courses for
the Open University in Bristol and Manchester, and English language at the
Universities of Benghazi and Kuwait. She has previously published articles
in the field of French suffixes in English. 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Lexicography
                     Morphology
                     Semantics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Middle English (enm)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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