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Constructing a schema: Word-class changing morphology in a usage-based perspective

Constructing a schema: Word-class changing morphology in a usage-based perspective Abstract This paper discusses how collostructional analysis can be applied to the study of word-formation patterns. Drawing on a diachronic corpus study of German ung-nominalization and Infinitival Nominalization using the GerManC Corpus, it is shown that a cross-tabulation analysis comparing the frequencies of word-formation products to those of their respective bases can give valuable clues to the input language users rely on when abstracting a schema (i.e., a word-formation construction) from a quite heterogeneous array of instantiations. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (to be published December 2013) de Gruyter

Constructing a schema: Word-class changing morphology in a usage-based perspective

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de Gruyter
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2197-2788
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2197-2796
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10.1515/gcla-2014-0014
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Abstract This paper discusses how collostructional analysis can be applied to the study of word-formation patterns. Drawing on a diachronic corpus study of German ung-nominalization and Infinitival Nominalization using the GerManC Corpus, it is shown that a cross-tabulation analysis comparing the frequencies of word-formation products to those of their respective bases can give valuable clues to the input language users rely on when abstracting a schema (i.e., a word-formation construction) from a quite heterogeneous array of instantiations.

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Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (to be published December 2013) – de Gruyter

Published: Nov 1, 2014

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