Lexical categories and processes of category change. Perspectives for a constructionist approach
- This paper revisits the notions of lexical category and category change from a constructionist perspective. I distinguish between four processes of category change (affixal derivation, conversion, transposition and reanalysis) and demonstrate how these category-changing processes can be analyzed in the framework of Construction Grammar. More particularly, it will be claimed that lexical categories can be understood as abstract instances of constructions (i.e., form-function pairings) and category change will be assumed to be closely connected to the process of constructionalization, i.e., the creation of new form-meaning pairings. Furthermore, it will be shown that the constructionist approach offers the advantage of accounting for the variety of input categories (ranging from morphemes to multi-word units) as well as for some problematic characteristics related to certain types of category change, such as context-sensitivity, counterdirectionality and gradualness of the changes.
Author: | Kristel van GoethemORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-701836 |
ISSN: | 2367-3877 |
Parent Title (Multiple languages): | Zeitschrift für Wortbildung : ZWJW = Journal of word formation |
Publisher: | Peter Lang |
Place of publication: | Berlin |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2022/09/29 |
Year of first Publication: | 2017 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2022/12/23 |
GND Keyword: | Ableitung <Linguistik>; Konstruktionsgrammatik |
Volume: | 1.2017 |
Issue: | 2 |
Page Number: | 31 |
First Page: | 31 |
Last Page: | 61 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik | |
Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Morphologie / Morphology |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - CC BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |