Spanish Word Formation and Lexical Creation

Editors

José Luis Cifuentes Honrubia | University of Alicante

Susana Rodríguez Rosique | University of Alicante

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This volume contributes a wider approach to word formation processes and sheds light on some unsolved issues. While the formal relationships established between the different constituents of a complex word have been analyzed in great depth, the semantic links have received little dedication. In order to complete the analysis, it is necessary to pay attention to the semantic properties associated to verbalization. The main purpose of the book is to integrate both the semantic proposals and the formal perspectives concerning word formation. This theoretical aim becomes the framework to study several mechanisms of lexical creation and neologisms. Furthermore, word formation is presented as a new source for Applied Linguistics. Although the volume uses Spanish as a starting point, it means to delimit formation patterns which may also be productive in other languages. This book is sure to become an important reference in the controversial field of word formation.

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 1] 2011. xvi, 485 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 30 November 2011

https://doi.org/10.1075/ivitra.1

Table of Contents

Preface

José Luis Cifuentes Honrubia and Susana Rodríguez Rosique | pp. vii–xiv

List of contributors | pp. xv–xvi

On meteorological denominal verbs in Spanish: Syntactic-semantic properties and argument relationships

Elisa Barrajón López | pp. 1–20

Instrumental verb formation: A conceptual approach

Javier Bolaños Navalón | pp. 21–42

Conflation processes in the formation of Spanish verbs with a prepositional object

José Antonio Candalija Reina | pp. 43–64

Spanish deadjectival verbs and argument structure

José Luis Cifuentes Honrubia | pp. 65–106

Sensory-emotional denominal causative verbs

Ruth María Lavale-Ortiz | pp. 107–144

Morphology and pragmatics of affixal negation: Evidence from Spanish des-

Susana Rodríguez Rosique | pp. 145–162

Deverbal nouns with the suffix -dura

Josefa Martín García | pp. 163–184

On protagonizar ‘an event’ and the scope of the concept of ‘light verb’

María Antonia Martínez Linares | pp. 185–216

The relationship between verb-noun in derivational series

Jesús Pena Seijas | pp. 217–232

Nominalizations of transfer verbs: Blocking, constraints and competition between affixes

Antonio Rifón Sánchez | pp. 233–254

Base selection and prefixing: The prefix des-

David Serrano Dolader | pp. 255–282

Phonetic adaptation and derivational morphological development of foreign words in Spanish in the dpd

Celia Berná Sicilia | pp. 283–306

From Latin super- to Spanish sobre-: Aspects on semantic evolution in verb formation

José Luis Cifuentes Honrubia and Javier Fresnillo Núñez | pp. 307–346

Word formation processes and proposals for the classification of formal neologisms

María Tadea Díaz Hormigo | pp. 347–368

The concept of light in Spanish denominal verbs: A cognitive analysis

Jorge Fernández Jaén and Hilde Hanegreefs | pp. 369–408

Metaphors as a source of lexical creation in the field of wine criticism

Montserrat Planelles Iváñez | pp. 409–424

On deverbal word formation as condensation of previous mental patterns

Estanislao Ramon Trives | pp. 425–436

Lexical collocations and the learning of Spanish as a foreign language: State of the art and future projects

Marta Higueras García | pp. 437–464

Denominal verbs in Ele/El2 classroom (a didactic approach)

Santiago Roca Marín | pp. 465–468

Author index | pp. 479–482

Subject index | pp. 483–486

“[This] is the first thematic volume that integrates both formal and semantic approaches to word formation and lexical creation. The studies included in the volume are theoretically up-to-date and present innovative case studies that are methodologically very solid. […] The mechanisms of word formation and lexical creation analyzed lead to new insights that will inspire scholars of other countries and may give rise to similar initiatives centered on other languages.”

Nicole Delbecque, University of Leuven

“The present book convincingly shows how word-formation constitutes a field where correlations between conceptual, structural and pragmatic factors take place, how meaning takes a central part in the processes of word-formation, [and] how unfounded it is theoretically and methodologically to separate lexicon from grammar.”

Augusto Soares da Silva, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Braga

“[U]na obra colectiva muy abarcadora, tanto por el número de fenómenos tratados como por la variedad de enfoques que se adoptan; es lo esperable cuando se trata un campo de estudio tan amplio. Por esto, el volumen resultará atractivo no solo para morfólogos en general, sino también para quienes estén interesados en alguno de los aspectos de la formación de palabras y su interacción, así como su aplicación en diversos ámbitos.”

Olga Batsiukova, in Infoling 4.25, 2013

“El volumen consta de diecinueve capítulos, divididos en cuatro apartados temáticos. En ellos, la lengua española funciona como pretexto para ilustrar las hipótesis o teorías expuestas; sin embargo, los patrones de formación que aquí se describen pueden ser también productivos en otras lenguas. [El libro] supone una oportunidad excepcional para adentrarse en el apasionante e intrincado mundo de la palabra compleja.”

Nuria Merchán Aravid, in Libreria Iberoamericana, RILI, XI:1 (2013) 199-203.

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