27.2517, TOC: Acta Linguistica Hungarica 62/4 (2015)

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Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2016 10:28:23
From: Zoltán Páll [zoltan.pall at akademiai.hu]
Subject: Acta Linguistica Hungarica Vol.62, No.4 (2015)

Publisher:	Akadémiai Kiadó
			http://www.akademiai.com/ 

Journal Title:  Acta Linguistica Hungarica 
Volume Number:  62 
Issue Number:  4 
Issue Date:  2015 

Main Text:  

Lasserre, Marine: What are you afraid of? The construction of meaning in
X-(o)phobie lexemes 
10.1556/064.2015.62.4.5
pp. 477-495. 

Abstract: French neoclassical compounds X-(o)phobie display two distinct
meanings : ‘fear’ and ‘hostility’. In order to determine which meaning is
involved in a given complex word, X-(o)phobie lexemes are studied according to
the contexts they are used in. In fact, in a non-compositional analysis,
complex words cannot be studied in isolation since they construct their
meaning whenever they are employed. The distributional hypothesis offers a new
way to examine the semantics of complex words. Two methods make it possible to
investigate the variation of meanings in X-(o)phobie lexemes. (…)

Baló, Márton András
The nominal morphology of Lovari from an analogical perspective
10.1556/064.2015.62.4.2
pp. 395-414. 

Abstract: The paper attempts to provide evidence that analogy-based approaches
make language change, as well as unstable and variegated forms and word
classes easier to grasp than they would be in a traditional synchronic
framework or through a rule-based diachronic analysis. The example is the
declension of the Lovari dialect of Romani, a dialectally most diverse
Indo-European language that is often exposed to contact-related influences. A
unique feature of Romani (...)

Birtić, Matea Andrea
Nominals with the suffix -ač in Croatian
10.1556/064.2015.62.4.3
pp. 415-445

Abstract: The paper presents an analysis of Croatian agentive nominals with
the suffix -ač within the Distributed Morphology approach, adopting and
applying Alexiadou & Schäfer’s (2010) model. The internal morphological
structure of the -ač nouns, and their eventive properties were considered in
detail. The analysis has shown that the eventive/non-eventive properties of
-ač nouns do not depend on animacy, but rather on the episodic vs.
dispositional distinction. However, instrument nominals are distinguished (…)

Appah, Clement Kwamina Insaidoo
On the syntactic category of Akan compounds, A product-oriented perspective
10.1556/064.2015.62.4.1
pp. 361-394. 

Abstract: In accounting for the properties of morphological constructions, one
may adopt a source-oriented view where every property of the whole emanates
from the parts or a product-oriented view where the whole may have properties
that do not come from the parts. Such properties are called holistic
constructional properties. Studies on Akan compounds have been invariably
source-oriented, assuming that every property in a compound, including the
syntactic category, has to come from its constituents. I show that compounding
in Akan is blind to the syntactic category of the constituents. Thus,
notwithstanding the syntactic category of the constituents the Akan compound
is invariably nominal. This paper (…)

Efthymiou, Angeliki; Fragaki, Georgia; Markos, Angelos
Exploring the meaning and productivity of a polysemous prefix
10.1556/064.2015.62.4.4
pp. 447-476. 

Abstract: This paper follows a corpus-based approach to the meaning and
productivity of the Modern Greek prepositional prefix para-. A semantic
categorization of the prefix is proposed and its productivity is measured
across semantic categories, registers, text types and grammatical categories.
Para- was found to be more productive in non-locational and evaluative
meanings. Its most productive meaning is excess, while the locational meaning
of proximity still remains strong. It is also more productive in written than
spoken (...)

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Semantics
                     Syntax
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Akan (aka)
                     Croatian (hrv)
                     French (fra)
                     Greek, Modern (ell)
                     Romani, Vlax (rmy)

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