TY  - JOUR
A1  - Goethem, Kristel van
T1  - Lexical categories and processes of category change. Perspectives for a constructionist approach
T2  - Zeitschrift für Wortbildung : ZWJW = Journal of word formation
N2  - 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.
KW  - Ableitung <Linguistik>
KW  - Konstruktionsgrammatik
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/70183
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-701836
SN  - 2367-3877
VL  - 1.2017
IS  - 2
SP  - 31
EP  - 61
PB  - Peter Lang
CY  - Berlin
ER  -