Linguistic Insights 202. English suffixes. Stress-assignment properties, productivity, selection and combinatorial processes

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1 Linguistic Insights 202 English suffixes Stress-assignment properties, productivity, selection and combinatorial processes Bearbeitet von Ives Trevian 1. Auflage Taschenbuch. XVI, 471 S. Paperback ISBN Format (B x L): 15 x 22,5 cm Gewicht: 720 g Weitere Fachgebiete > Literatur, Sprache > Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft > Studien zu einzelnen Sprachen & Sprachfamilien schnell und portofrei erhältlich bei Die Online-Fachbuchhandlung beck-shop.de ist spezialisiert auf Fachbücher, insbesondere Recht, Steuern und Wirtschaft. Im Sortiment finden Sie alle Medien (Bücher, Zeitschriften, CDs, ebooks, etc.) aller Verlage. Ergänzt wird das Programm durch Services wie Neuerscheinungsdienst oder Zusammenstellungen von Büchern zu Sonderpreisen. Der Shop führt mehr als 8 Millionen Produkte.

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3 Contents Symbols and conventions...xiii Abbreviations...xv 0. Introduction Objectives and methodology Stress-assignment: a confrontation between two phonologies Two families of affixes to account for the combinatorial properties of affixes? Rules vs. constraints Book structure...18 Part I. S-1 and auto-stressed suffixes 1. -ic General features Suffix combinations Allomorphic transformations Extensions of the -ic rule Summary and conclusion ion and similar affixes General features The -ION generalisation ion and its allomorphs -ation, -ition, -ution, -fication, -faction ity General features...57

4 viii 3.2 Suffix juxtaposition and substitution ety ty Underived nouns in -ity Summary and conclusion S-1 suffixes indicative of smaller word populations ify ible/-igible icide meter erie Stress-bearing affixes Affixes of French origin Stress-bearing affixes from Latin or Romance languages other than French Germanic stress-bearing suffixes Neoclassical affixes and combining forms...98 Part II. Neutral suffixes 6. Grammatical suffixes Consonant-initial suffixes General features Consonant-initial suffixes of Latinate stock in Present-Day English Consonant-initial suffixes of Germanic stock Consonant-initial suffixes of Germanic stock still productive in Present-Day English Suffixes extracted from foreign words Neoclassical combining forms Summary and conclusion Neutral vowel-initial suffixes of Germanic stock or of uncertain origins...147

5 8.1 Unproductive forms Productive forms er General features Productivity in compounds Productivity in non-compound lexemes Nouns in -er with an obscure or opaque stem Suffix stacking Latinate vowel-initial suffixes: -er s rival agent noun suffixes ant/-ent ator and -or ist ite Unproductive person or instrument suffixes Summary and conclusion Latinate Vowel-initial noun suffixes of action, state, process and result acy age al ance/-ancy, -ence/-ency ate ery ule ure Mixed suffixes Part III. Mixed suffixes 12. -able General features able or -ible? Stress-neutrality and variation ix

6 12.4 Suffix stacking Verb suffixes ate ise y and -ism y ism Part IV. S-1/2 suffixes 15. Adjective suffixes #Syl + -al, -an, etc ION adjective affixes Consonant clusters + adjective affixes -al, -ous, etc Vowel digraphs + -al, -an, etc ul- + adjective affixes -ar, -an, -ous, etc VCal/-an/-ous, etc ative, -atory, -utive, -utory Suffix stacking Neoclassical suffixes General features and stress assignment Productive suffixes Exceptions to truncation of neoclassical endings Stress-assignment and suffix stacking, overall recapitulation Stress-assignement Suffix stacking Part V. Further issues 18. Compounds Combining-form compounds Standard compounds x

7 19. Conversion Noun-verb and verb-noun conversion Adjective-noun and noun-adjective conversion Adjective/verb conversion Verb-adjective conversion Secondary stress General principles The condensation/information dichotomy General conclusion References xi