A language is so constructed that the speaker is able to draw out of its resources whatever he wishes to communicate, yet whenever cultural borrowing occurs he cannot altogether avoid borrowing the words which are associated with it. Russian written records indicate that the language has been exposed to numerous foreign influences from very early times. With the intense introduction of "Westernization" since the sixteenth-century both English and French have had a considerable influence on Russian and especially in the twentieth-century this has even increased. For the purpose of this study, therefore, the writer has chosen to analyse English and French loanwords that are found in use in present-day Russian; examples from other languages, especially German, will be given occasionally insofar as they support the arguments presented. This thesis attempts an overall description of the morphological assimilation of loanwords. Phonological analysis and discussion of the socio-cultural context is given consideration in order to enable the reader and the analyst to see this paper as a whole. It was necessary to abstract linguistic elements at different levels of analysis so that some problems that are not explainable at the morphological level, would not be left unsolved. To some extent future borrowings into the Russian language in connection with cultural borrowing may be predicted. The pronounciation of a loanword depends on the degree of assimilation and whether or not the speaker is aware of the fact that it is a borrowing or wants to alert the listener as well. On the whole, loanwords are subject to phonological as well as morphological adjustments. Loanwords are sometimes under the pressure of both the native and foreign morphological systems, which in turn causes fluctuation of forms. Important external factors in the assimilation of loanwords at both levels are the audio and visual means of communication involved in transferring a loanword from either English or French into Russian. An interesting feature for future investigation is the analysis of loanwords on the lexical level and the correlation of lexical patterning with morphology in the process of loanword assimilation. / Arts, Faculty of / Central Eastern Northern European Studies, Department of / Graduate

Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Morphologiestruktur der verschiedenen Sprachperioden im Persischen, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf der Wortbildung liegt. Des Weiteren wird der Versuch unternommen, die innere Struktur der Wörter in Bezug auf die Wortbildung auf verschiedenen Zeitebenen zu erforschen und die Wortbildungsmuster zu analysieren.

Word forming process of clipping and its presentation and comprehension in French textbooks at B1 level This diploma thesis focuses on the word formation process of clipping and its presentation and seizing in French textbooks at the B1 level. The theoretical part of the work aims to describe the clipping in the context of other word forming processes and to provide basic information about this process based on the study of professional publications. This part of the work defines clipping and presents the basic typology (apocope and apheresis). Based on specific examples, the thesis describes the morphological and phonetic attributes of clipping, and also mentions specific forms of words associated with this process, such as lexical amalgams. In addition, the theoretical part mentions the words classes usually affected by clipping, the question of grammatical categories or the concept of clipping in the Czech language. The aim of the practical part is to analyse the occurence of the process of clipping in teaching at high schools, using three contemporary French textbooks at the B1 level according to CEFR. The presence or absence of the clipping process in the teaching is also analysed via questionnaire research in selected years of high school. The thesis is based on the assumption that the...

In this thesis we focus on singulatives, which, according to S. Bevzenko, are most common in the Ukrainian language. In the study, we analyzed many meanings of the term singulative from different linguists and chose version of V. Musatov, which, in our opinion, is the most accurate. The theoretical part is dedicated to general information about singulatives, their presence and meaning in Slavic languages as well as classifications, by which researchers divide these nouns. The general stylistic characteristic of singulatives in Russian, where these nouns are investigated in more detail, is also presented in this part. In the practical part with the use of Hrinchenko's "Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language" (1907 - 1909), "Dictionary of the Ukrainian language" in eleven volumes (1970 - 1980) and the academic "Great explanatory dictionary of Modern Ukrainian language" (2009) we research singulatives in the Ukrainian language, including changing or preserving their lexical meanings and stylistic markings during 1909 - 2009, as well as their use in fiction and folklore. Key words: singulative, the Ukrainian language, word formation, noun, connotation

In this paper we refuse the generalized idea within linguists working on Spanish word formation that compounds with a verbal element in Spanish language are nouns. Based on different criteria (morphological, syntactic and semantic) and attending the evolution of Spanish language, we like to show in contrast that these formations are adjectives.

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The present thesis deals with the study of neology and neologisms in contemporary French. The theoretical part defines the concepts of neology and neologism, word-formation processes in general and specific word-formation processes classified as formal neology, semantic neology and borrowings. The empirical part describes the formation of the corpus created for the purposes of the thesis, which is based on texts selected form current French press (the daily broadsheet Le Monde and the weekly tabloid Voici). The core section of the thesis presents samples and analyses of individual word-formation processes which appeared in the author's corpus. The data are accompanied by a basic statistical analysis of the relative proportions of individual word-formation processes. The research shows that borrowings, especially those from English, represent the most frequent word-formation process in both newspapers. Borrowings constituted nearly a half of all identified neologisms (45%) in Voici and nearly one third of the neologisms (28%) in Le Monde. KEYWORDS Neology, neologism, language registers, official word formation, word-formation processes, French press, Le Monde, Voici

Ce mémoire s’intéresse aux processus de formation de mots. Nous postulons que les notions de productivité et de polysémie guident les locuteurs dans la sélection des procédés de formation de mots. Afin de vérifier notre hypothèse, nous avons porté nos observations sur un répertoire de mots suffixés de l’espagnol, le « Diccionario de los sufijos de la lengua española (DISULE) » de Faitelson-Weiser (2010, cf. www.sufijos.lli.ulaval.ca ). Nous avons évalué les degrés de productivité et de polysémie de chaque segment identifié comme étant un suffixe. Nous avons ensuite mis en relation les valeurs obtenues pour chacune des propriétés. Cette démarche, que nous avons testée, reconnaît le morphème comme unité d’analyse, ce qui se correspond au modèle grammatical Item et arrangement (Hockett, 1954). Bien que le résultat de nos analyses ne nous permette pas d’établir des corrélations fortes entre les deux variables pour l’ensemble des suffixes, lorsque nous délimitons des contextes de concurrence spécifiques, nous pouvons constater que les relations entre productivité et polysémie suivent des patrons spécifiques à ceux-ci. En outre, nous remarquons que le modèle adopté est plus efficace dans la description de la polysémie que pour expliquer la productivité; ce qui nous amène à nous questionner sur la pertinence de l’opposition établie entre mot et morphème en tant qu’unités d’analyse. Nous concluons que les deux notions sont essentielles en morphologie. / This thesis deals with the process of word formation. We assume that productivity and polysemy are guiding the speakers in the way they create words. To confirm this assumption, we have studied the list of Spanish words with suffixes included in the “Diccionario de los sufijos de la lengua española (DISULE)” by Silvia Faitelson-Weiser (2010, cf. www.sufijos.lli.ulaval.ca ). We have evaluated the levels of productivity and polysemy of each segment identified as a suffix. We have then correlated the values thus reached for each feature. In this approach, which we have fully tested, the morpheme is recognized as a unit of analysis in line with the grammatical model Item and arrangement (Hockett, 1954). Even though our analysis did not enable us to find strong correlations between the two variables for all suffixes, when we define specific contexts of competition, we see that the relations between productivity and polysemy are following specific patterns. We also notice that the chosen pattern is more effective to describe polysemy than to explain productivity. We are thus led to question how relevant the opposition between word and morpheme, as units of analysis, really is. Our study focuses on these two notions of morphology.

[pt] Este trabalho investiga os valores do prefixo re- enquanto elemento morfológico utilizado na formação de verbos no Português do Brasil e focaliza a questão da produtividade lexical em sua relação com o aspecto polissêmico e/ou multifuncional dos processos de formação de palavras. De início, analisam-se diferentes abordagens da formação de palavras por prefixação na descrição do português e revisam-se os preceitos da gramática tradicional, a perspectiva estruturalista e a abordagem gerativista em relação ao fenômeno. Em seguida, são apresentadas e analisadas diferentes proposições descritivas sobre o prefixo re- na língua portuguesa.. Discute-se a seguir a complexa noção de produtividade na Teoria Lexical e introduz-se a questão da polissemia nas construções lexicais e sua relevância na determinação da produtividade de processos específicos de formação de palavras. A partir das questões teóricas levantadas, procede-se à análise da relação produtividade/polissemia no processo de adição do prefixo re- para a formação de verbos no português. Os resultados da análise, baseada num corpus de língua escrita jornalística contemporânea e num corpus, de tamanho equivalente, de língua falada culta (dados do Projeto NURC), evidenciam o caráter polissêmico do prefixo re- no português contemporâneo e revelam a precariedade de abordagens correntes que privilegiam a noção de repetição como único aporte semântico produtivo do prefixo re- na formação de verbos. A investigação revela ainda que é possível prever pela semântica do verbo o(s) significado(s) de uma eventual formação com o prefixo re-, configurando-se, portanto, a delimitação de um conjunto de construções lexicais possíveis na língua, juntamente com seus significados, o que indica que a multiplicidade de sentidos de re- não é aleatória, antes constitui um fenômeno derivado de conjunções de significados que levam a uma direção funcional na formação de palavras por prefixação. / [en] This work investigates the meanings of the prefix re- as a morphological element used in verb formation in Brazilian Portuguese. It concentrates on the question of lexical productivity and its relation to the polysemic and/ or multifunctional aspect of word formation. Initially, we analyse several approaches to word formation by prefixation in Portuguese, examining the precepts of traditional grammar, the point of view of the structuralists and the generative view on the phenomenon. Then we present and discuss different descriptive proposals for the prefix re- in Portuguese. Next, we discuss the complex notion of productivity in lexical theory and introduce the question of polysemy in lexical constructions and its relevance in determining specific processes in word formation. Having in mind the theoretical issues brought into our previous discussion, we then analyse the relation between productivity and polysemy in the Word Formation Rule of re- addition in Portuguese verb formation. The analysis is based on corpora consisting both of contemporary written newspaper language and of standard spoken language (NURC data) of about the same length. Our results reveal the polysemic nature of the prefix re- in contemporary Portuguese and point to the precariousness of current descriptions which focus on the notion of repetition as being the sole productive semantic contribution of the prefix re- in verb formation. Furthermore, the research shows that it is possible to predict the meaning(s) of a re- + V formation on the basis of the semantic properties of the basic verb. This strongly supports the hypothesis that the multiplicity of meanings of the prefix re- does not constitute a case of random or incidental polysemy, but rather accounts for a phenomenon generated by a convergence of meanings which leads towards a functional direction in word formation by prefixation.

O presente trabalho, resultado das pesquisas do GMHP, Grupo de Mofologia Histórica do Português, procura estudar os aspectos sincrônicos e diacrônicos do sufixo -ístico(a), bem como as relações existentes com o seu desdobramento -ística e com os sufixos -ismo e -ista, no português e no galego, para justificar, então, sua mudança morfológica de atuação deverbal para denominal, bem como as suas demais mudanças semânticas e as línguas responsáveis pela sua disseminação. Para tanto, utilizando-se a metodologia desenvolvida pelo grupo, e com corpora lexicográfico, historiográfico, ademais de literário e jornalístico, procura-se inicialmente por meio da elaboração de uma prospecção geral, estabelecer o período de início de atuação do sufixo além de verificar como é entendido pelas obras lingüísticas atuais nas duas línguas em estudo. Em seguida, estuda-se a sua gênese greco-latina e, posteriormente, sua atuação em outras línguas, como também suas relações sintagmáticas e paradigmáticas com os demais sufixos envolvidos, para se estabelecer uma evolução ao longo dos séculos, por meio da elaboração de classificações semântico-funcionais de cada período estudado, bem como avaliar a importância das línguas de cultura e dos processos de tradução na disseminação dos sufixos em questão. Nesse sentido, com a construção do glossário de datações e abonações de palavras formadas com o sufixo -ística, desdobramento de -ístico(a), pode-se verificar a grande importância da língua alemã, em detrimento da francesa, na veiculação do sufixo. Finalmente, com a análise da produtividade de -ístico(a) no português, mostra-se que um sufixo não é apenas provido de significado semântico e funcional, mas também é constituído vários outros matizes, dentre eles os que caracterizam o gênero textual em que atua. / The present work, a result of researches carried out by the GHMP (GMHP in Portuguese) - Group of Historical Morphology of the Portuguese Language - aims at studying both the synchronic and diachronic aspects of the suffix -ístico(a), as well as its existing relations with its evolution -ística and with the suffixes -ismo and -ista in Portuguese and Galician, in order to justify its morphological change from a deverbal to a denominal nature, its further semantic changes as well as the languages responsible for its dissemination. For such, by making use of the method evolved by the group and with lexicographical, historiographical, not to mention literary and journalistic corpora, initially we aim by means of the elaboration of a general prospection, to establish the initial period of functioning of the suffix besides observing how it is understood by the present linguistic works in the two languages under study. Then, its Greco-Latin genesis and subsequently its functioning in other languages are analyzed as well as its syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations with the other suffixes involved in order to establish an evolution throughout the centuries by means of the elaboration of functional-semantic classifications of each period under study, as well as to assess the importance of languages of culture and of processes of translations in the dissemination of the suffixes in question. Thus, with the construction of a glossary of dating and sample sentences of formations with -ística, the evolution of -ístico(a), the great importance of the German language, unlike the French language, in the diffusion of the suffix can be observed. Finally, with the analysis of the productivity of -ístico(a) in Portuguese, it can be demonstrated that a suffix is not only possessed by both a semantic and functional meaning, but is also constituted by various other nuances, among which the ones that characterize the textual gender in which it functions.