Derivational Networks Across Languages

This pioneering research brings a new insight into derivational processes in terms of theory, method and typology.
Theoretically, it conceives of derivation as a three-dimensional system. Methodologically, it introduces a range of parameters for the evaluation of derivational networks, including the derivational role, combinability and blocking effects of semantic categories, the maximum derivational potential and its actualization in relation to simple underived words, and the maximum and average number of orders of derivation.
Each language-specific chapter has a unified structure, which made it possible to identify - in the final, typologically oriented chapter - the systematicity and regularity in developing derivational networks in a sample of forty European languages and in a few language genera and families. This is supported by considerations about the role of word-classes, morphological types, and the differences and similarities between word-formation processes of the languages belonging to the same genus/family.

About the author

Lívia Körtvélyessy & Pavol Štekauer, Košice, Slovenia.; Alexandra Bagasheva, Sofia, Bulgaria.

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• Assisted by: Pavol ¿Tekauer (Editor), Alexandr Bagasheva (Editor), Alexandra Bagasheva (Editor), Lívia Körtvélyessy (Editor), Pavol Stekauer (Editor), Pavol Tekauer (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9783110778144
• ISBN: 978-3-11-077814-4
• No. of pages: 622
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 41 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 1064 g
• Illustrations: 10 b/w and 10 col. ill., 362 b/w tbl.
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]; ISSN; Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM], 340
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics