Text in Afrikaans / In hierdie verhandeling word 'n voorlopige bestekopname van Afrikaanse ekosentriese komposita aangebied. Die korpus waaruit voorbeeldmateriaal geput is, sluit leksikografiese en akademiese werke, asook die spreektaal in. Na aanleiding van 'n komparatiewe bespreking van morfologiese, kategoriale en semantiese onderskeidingskenmerke van ekso- en endosentriese komposita, word daar tot die gevolgtrekking gekom dat die onderskeid tussen eksosentriese en endosentriese lekseme noodsaaklik is. Eksosentriese komposita word deurgaans bespreek as 'n prototipiese kategorie, met kern- en randelemente. Anders as by endosentriese samestellings, ontbreek 'n hipnimie-relasie tussen prototipiese eksosentriese samestellings en enige van hul konstituente. Alhoewel eksosentriese komposita uiteraard dubbelsinnig en semanties ondeursigtig is, is die ondeursigtighied gradeerbaar, vanaf redelik deursigtig tot heeltemal ondeursigtig. 'n Inventaris word aangebied van eksosentriese samestellings, soos dit verdeel kan word in subgroepe op grond van ontstaanswyses, semantiese kenmerke en strukturele kenmerke van die woorde. Ten slotte word die verdere studie van funksionele aspekte van eksosentriese komposita in die vooruitsig gestel. / Afrikaans and Theory of Literature / M.A. (Afrikaans)

Morphological productivity is difficult to define and describe. Nevertheless have several measures been proposed by scholars, in order to quantify this notion. This paper investigates ten common English prefixes with meanings related to degree or size. The aims of the study are (1) to review several measures of morphological productivity, (2) via a sample of corpus occurrences of ten prefixes, to calculate productivity figures using five different measures of productivity, and (3), perhaps most importantly, to discuss the differences and similarities of the five measures. The results suggest that while several of the measures are quite similar (e.g. type frequency and hapax legomena frequency), other measures are different (e.g. 'Productivity in the narrow sense'). While three of the measures could be said to provide information concerning past or 'factual' productivity, two of the measures seem instead to indicate an aspect of productivity that is referred to as 'potential' productivity.

In Swedish dialects we find the terms ris, skäver and skärva referring to illnesses in children. The words are also parts of various compounds which refer to variants of the illnesses. The terms are linguistic expressions denoting two folk categories of illnesses, RIS and SKÄVER/SKÄRVA. These categories are investigated from a cognitive semantic perspective. The cognitive perspective argues that we organize our understanding of reality by using Idealized Cognitive Models (ICM) based on our physical, mental and emotional experiences of the world. The aim is twofold: to demonstrate the bases on which an experienced illness is placed in a certain category, and to show how a folk conception of illness is reflected in the word formation strategies. The word formation strategies emanate from notions of characteristic symptoms, and from notions of causes of illnesses. Both categories, RIS and SKÄVER/SKÄRVA, are based on a number of ICM's. The category RIS is a radial structure, which means that the category is held together although its members have no structural criteria in common. The category SKÄVER/SKÄRVA is a concentrating structure, meaning that all members share all structural criteria. There is a strong connection between word formation strategies and the structures of the categories. Terms related to symptoms refer to members of a category which are part of a radial structure, while terms related to causes refer to members of a category which are part of a concentrating structure. This can be explained by two of the basic assumptions of cognitive semantics: semantic content is structred and symbolized overtly on the surface form of a language and categories are conventional, based on cultural assumptions about the world. / digitalisering@umu

Orientadores: Maria Filomena Spatti Sândalo, Andrew Ira Nevins / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-27T11:25:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Freitas_MariaLuisadeAndrade_D.pdf: 9587442 bytes, checksum: 3fa3a7847eda593904ce50e3a60d08ff (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: Esta tese descreve e analisa aspectos morfofonológicos e morfossintáticos dos nomes deverbais formados pelos nominalizadores -ção e -mento no Português Brasileiro, aliando uma abordagem experimental e quantitativa a uma investigação diacrônica. Esses sufixos formam nomes derivados a partir de raízes e verbos e são descritos conjuntamente como os nominalizadores mais produtivos em PB (Basílio 1980, 1996; Rocha 1999; entre outros). Em um estudo quantitativo (Freitas 2014), averiguamos tendências claras na distribuição desses afixos nominalizadores, a partir da análise de uma base de dados composta de 2175 palavras: (i) Há uma relação de preferência entre os verbos da segunda conjugação (em -er) e o sufixo -mento. Interessantemente, nos nomes deverbais formados por este afixo há um alteamento obrigatório da vogal temática -e- (e.g. mover/movimento), causando neutralização entre a segunda e a terceira conjugação. Contudo, nos nomes formados por - ção, este alteamento não é categórico (e.g. fazer/fazeção/*fazição). (ii) A estrutura argumental da base é fator condicionante na escolha dos sufixos -ção e -mento: verbos transitivos e inergativos são preferencialmente nominalizados com -ção, e os verbos inacusativos são nominalizados com -mento. Neste trabalho, investigamos se as tendências lexicais identificadas são produtivas sincronicamente, quer dizer, se as distribuições observadas no léxico apresentam realidade psicológica ou não para os falantes de PB. Para isso, desenvolvemos três experimentos com logatomas (ou pseudo-palavras) com intuito de averiguar a hipótese de que os falantes têm internalizados dois fatores que condicionam a seleção preferencial dos sufixos -ção e -mento: (i) o fator fonológico, i.e., as classes temáticas verbais; e (ii) o fator sintático, i.e., a estrutura argumental do verbo base. Os resultados dos experimentos atestam que existe uma correlação significativa entre os fatores investigados e a escolha do sufixo nominalizador, assim como averiguamos no léxico. Dessa maneira, tendo em vista um modelo sintático de formação de palavras como o da Morfologia Distribuída (Halle; Marantz 1993; 1994; Marantz 2001, 2007; Embick 2010), argumentamos que o tipo de estrutura argumental dos verbos determina o comportamento morfofonológico e morfossintático dos nomes deverbais formados pelos sufixos -ção e -mento. A hipótese que defendemos é a de que a presença de DP complemento na estrutura argumental de verbos desencadeia diferenças no ponto computacional em que as raízes são enviadas ao componente fonológico para serem processadas, gerando diferenças de superfície nos nomes resultantes desse processo derivacional. Adicionalmente, abordamos nesta tese a questão da variação na produtividade morfológica dos nominalizadores -ção e -mento em uma perspectiva diacrônica, a partir de um estudo piloto acerca da datação das palavras contidas na versão eletrônica do dicionário Houaiss da Língua Portuguesa / Abstract: This dissertation describes and analyses morphophonological and morphosyntactic aspects of the deverbal nouns formed by the nominalizing suffixes -ção and -mento in Brazilian Portuguese, combining an experimental and quantitative approach with a diachronic investigation. These suffixes can take both roots and verbs to form derived nouns and they are described together as the most productive nominalizers (Basílio 1980, 1996; Rocha 1999; among others). In a quantitative study (Freitas 2014), I found clear tendencies in the distribution of these affixes from the analysis of a database of 2715 words collected from the electronic version 1.0 of the Houaiss Dictionary of Portuguese: (i) There is a preference relation between the verbs of second conjugation (in -er) and the suffix -mento. Interestingly, in the deverbal nouns formed by this suffix there is an obligatory raising of the theme vowel -e- to [i] (e.g. mover/movimento), triggering neutralization between the second and the third verbal conjugations. However, in nouns formed by -ção, the raising is not categorical (e.g. fazer/fazeção/*fazição); (ii) the argument structure type of the verbal base is a conditioning factor for the selection of -ção and -mento: transitive and unergative verbs preferably select -ção and unaccusative verbs preferably select -mento. In this dissertation, I investigate whether these lexical trends are synchronically productive, exhibiting or not psychological reality for native speakers. To do so, I developed three wugtests in order to test the hypothesis that speakers have internalized two conditioning factors in the preferential selection of -ção and -mento: (i) the phonological factor, i.e. the thematic classes of the verbal bases; (ii) the syntactic factor, i.e. the argument structure type of the verbal bases. The experimental results attest there is a significant correlation between these factors and the choice of nominalizing suffix, as we have found in the lexicon. Therefore, taking into account a syntactic model of word formation such as Distributed Morphology (Halle; Marantz 1993; 1994; among many others), I argue that the argument structure of verbal bases is responsible for the morphophonological and morphosyntactic behavior of the nouns formed by -ção and -mento. I defend the hypothesis that the presence of a DP as complement of a root may trigger differences in the computational point at which the roots are sent to the phonological component to be phonologically processed, resulting in surface differences to the derived nouns. Additionally, in this work, I also address questions relating to the diachronic variation in the morphological productivity of the competing morphemes based on a pilot study using the electronic version of the Houaiss Dictionary of Portuguese / Doutorado / Linguistica / Doutora em Linguística

The diploma thesis is focused on problems of listed words in czech language teaching. The main aim of the thesis was to found the most effective method of listed words teaching in a third year of primary school. Theoretical part describes the position of listed words in Czech language and it search a pitfalls during the listed words teaching. The component of a teoretical part is also an analysis of Czech language textbooks for the third year of primary school. In the end of a theoretical part I was founding the other methods of listed words teaching which can be used in teaching. In practical part i was creating a materials for listed words teaching by selected teaching method (the method of word formation groups) and than i was verifying this method in a practical using. For the research investigation i selected qualitated method an action teaching research. With a group of six students i studyied by the method of word formation groups and than i compare them with rest of a class, which was teaching by traditional method of teaching. In conclusion of a diploma thesis i tested the both groups. In a final test i founded out, that the method of word formation groups is more effective than the tradiotional method. Keywords Listed words, teaching method, spelling, third year of primary school,...

Объектом исследования данной работы выступает профессиональный жаргон сотрудников правоохранительных органов Франции (далее – французский полицейский жаргон) в сферах его фиксации и функционирования. Цель данного исследования — выявление характерных приёмов эквивалентной и адекватной передачи единиц французского полицейского жаргона при переводе на русский язык. Методы исследования: метод описания, метод альтернатив, номотетический метод, проблемный метод, статистический метод, структурно-функциональный метод, герменевтический метод, метод наблюдения, метод качественного анализа документов, метод этимологического анализа, лингвостилистический метод, сопоставительный метод, метод произвольной выборки, методы контекстуального, комплексного и контрастивного анализа. В результате исследования устанавливаются стратегии перевода французских полицейских жаргонизмов в зависимости от лексико-тематических групп и словообразовательных моделей, к которым они принадлежат, а также подсчитывается и объясняется частотность той или иной лексико-тематической группы и словообразовательной модели французских полицейских жаргонизмов. Область применения: перевод и переводоведение, межкультурная коммуникация, лингвокультурология и социолингвистика. Значимость работы: заключается в том, что на материале современного французского полицейского сериала выявляются особенности перевода французских полицейских жаргонизмов на русский язык. / The object of this study is professional jargon of French law enforcement officers (hereinafter - French police jargon) in the spheres of its fixation and functioning. The aim of this study is to identify distinctive techniques of equivalent and adequate translation of French police jargon units into Russian. Research methods: descriptive method, alternative method, nomothetic method, problem method, statistical method, structural-functional method, hermeneutic method, observation method, method of qualitative document analysis, etymological method, linguistic method, comparative method, random sampling method, contextual, complex and contrastive analysis methods. The research results in the determination of French police jargon translation strategies according to the lexical thematic groups and word-formation models to which they belong, as well as estimating and explaining the frequency of various lexical-thematic groups and word-formation models of French police jargon expressions. Scope of application: translation and interpretation studies, intercultural communication, linguoculturology and sociolinguistics. Significance of the work: it reveals the peculiarities of translation of French police jargon expressions into Russian on the material of a modern French police series.

[pt] Este trabalho investiga as acepções do prefixo des em substantivos de ação no Português Brasileiro por meio de uma abordagem da língua em uso e focaliza a importância do contexto para o reconhecimento do sentido que está sendo ativado pelo afixo. Inicialmente, são apresentadas as principais contribuições da Tradição Gramatical Normativa e da Teoria da Linguística Gerativa para a análise do referido prefixo. Posteriormente, são detalhadas as bases teóricas que compõem este trabalho, que se fundamentam nos pressupostos da Linguística Cognitiva, paradigma de investigação dos estudos da linguagem que enfatiza a importância do sentido em uma perspectiva não-objetivista e da investigação da língua em uso. O corpus utilizado nesta pesquisa foi constituído a partir do mega-corpus eletrônico NILC da Universidade de São Paulo do campus de São Carlos. Os resultados da análise de dados revelam que a acepção do afixo des- na língua em uso é altamente influenciada pelo contexto, de maneira que é possível uma mesma palavra possuir sentidos diferentes, conforme esteja em diferentes situações de uso. / [en] This dissertation investigates the meanings of the prefix des in action nouns in Brazilian Portuguese through an approach to the language in use and focuses on the importance of context for the recognition of the meaning being activated by the affix. Initially, the main contributions of the Normative Grammatical Tradition and the Theory of Generative Linguistics to the analysis of the referred prefix are presented. Subsequently, the theoretical bases that make up this work are detailed, which are based on the assumptions of Cognitive Linguistics, a research paradigm of language studies that emphasizes the importance of meaning in a non-objectivist perspective and the investigation of the language in use. The corpus used in this research was constituted from the electronic mega-corpus NILC of the University of São Paulo developed on the São Carlos campus. The results of the data analysis reveal that the meaning of the affix des- in the language in use is highly influenced by the context, therefore it is possible for the same word to have different meanings, depending on whether it is in different situations of use.

The present thesis is based on my experience as one of the contributors to The Large Academic Dictionary German-Czech. It attempts to discuss the role of word formation in German-Czech dictionaries in that it focuses on presentation of word formation in outer texts, macrostructural ordering procedures, treatment of word forming elements, special word formation parts of dictionary entries and possibilities of typography as a means word formation description in a bilingual dictionary. The approach taken is both contemplative and transformative. The thesis rests on the study of existing German-Czech dictionaries published mostly after 1945, partly between 1802 and 1945 as well. Concrete function-based proposals centred on the supposed target users of the LADGC are discussed here. A considerable part of the thesis deals with German derived nouns in Ge-...(-e) seen from a corpus linguistic view.

Text in Afrikaans / An account of certain functional aspects of Afrikaans exocentric compounds is presented in this dissertation. This study builds on the preliminary survey presented in the dissertation 'n Korpusanalise van Afrikaanse eksosentriese komposita (Van Niekerk, 2001). Exemplary material is obtained from an extensive corpus, consisting of lexicographical and academic matter, as well as colloquial spoken language. Language is man's primary means of communication, used to convey knowledge and information. Lexical items are used to name and refer to all kinds of concepts, aspects, objects, persons and other references. Of particular importance to this study, however, is the expressive functionality of language, whereby it is used as an instrument to voice affect, judgement, opinion, perception and other emotional aspects. Exocentric compounds are singled out as lexemes of particular importance, utilized by Afrikaans speakers/writers to express themselves referentially and emotionally. In this study the researcher has endeavored to describe and explain certain aspects of exocentric compounds in terms of the cognitive process of conceptual blending, as explained in The way we think by Fauconnier and Turner (2003). Exocentric compounding is highly functional with regard to etnobiological naming of botanic and zoological references, especially as bahuvrihi compounds. More prominent, however, is the use of compounds to voice a wide variety of expressive values and connotations, both positive and negative. Humor is constantly referred to as probably the most important function of exocentric compounds. Other expressive functional aspects of exocentric compounds are discussed, such as insult, scorn and ridicule in nicknames and slurs, the softening effect of euphemism in contrast to the intensifying effect of dysphemism, idiomaticity, irony, et cetera, some of these aspects overlapping significantly. Exocentric compounds are creatively used as highly descriptive expressions in the informal register of colloquial Afrikaans, as well as in different dialects and sociolinguistic varieties. Based on observations in connection with the diverse use and optimal functionality of exocentric compounds in domains of every possible kind, the conclusion is reached that exocentric compounds is an essential part of the Afrikaans lexicon. / Afrikaans & Theory of Literature / D.Litt. et Phil.(Afrikaans)

The thesis analyses selected phenomena of graphy, phonology, morfology, lexicology and words-formation of the Frederick from Donin's Czech book of travels, which was written at the turn of the 16th and 17th century. Partly, it also deals with the syntax and style of the work. Selected phenomena of individual language levels are studied using the original manuscript. The thesis intends to show in which aspects the text is close to early modern language usage, and conversely in which aspects it differs from it. The language of the manuscript is also compared with the contemporary Czech language.