Cognitive Perspectives on Word Formation (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] Book 221)

While cognitive linguistics has become established as a comprehensive research paradigm over the last three decades, it has so far hardly contributed to investigations into processes of lexical creation as traditionally captured in research on word formation. In light of this, the volume at hand is the first one to take a step ahead towards illuminating diverse aspects of word formation from cognitive perspectives. The book combines contributions to the 2nd __International Cognitive Linguistics Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association__ with a selection of invited papers by scholars working on issues of word formation and cognitive linguistics. This selection is guided by pluralism in both methodology and topics. Thus, some contributions are of a primarily theoretical nature discussing, for example, recombinance as a model of word formation and a taxonomy of word formation processes as construction types. Several articles address interface issues such as word formation and phrasal constructions, word formation and inflection, as well as phonology and word formational patterns. The majority of the studies focuses on individual types of word formation (compounding, affixation, and conversion), and they contribute to reframing our understanding of these processes. With a focus on mostly Germanic languages (Afrikaans, Dutch, English, German, Luxembourgish, and Norwegian), data-driven analyses include corpus linguistic investigations, elicited data, psycholinguistic experiments, and computational linguistic applications. A few contributions follow a mainly introspective path of reasoning based on the discussion of selected examples as in the analysis of creative compounds. Overall, the volume provides a rich array of topics emerging under the umbrella of cognitive linguistic thought and established patterns and processes of word formation. The various studies add to a yet marginal body of research in cognitive word formation and, thus, advance our awareness about the benefits of applying cognitive linguistic thoughts for investigating processes of lexical creation.

While cognitive linguistics has become established as a comprehensive research paradigm over the last three decades, it has so far hardly contributed to investigations into processes of lexical creation as traditionally captured in research on word formation. In light of this, the volume at hand is the first one to take a step ahead towards illuminating diverse aspects of word formation from cognitive perspectives. The book combines contributions to the 2nd International Cognitive Linguistics Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association with a selection of invited papers by scholars working on issues of word formation and cognitive linguistics.

This selection is guided by pluralism in both methodology and topics. Thus, some contributions are of a primarily theoretical nature discussing, for example, recombinance as a model of word formation and a taxonomy of word formation processes as construction types. Several articles address interface issues such as word formation and phrasal constructions, word formation and inflection, as well as phonology and word formational patterns. The majority of the studies focuses on individual types of word formation (compounding, affixation, and conversion), and they contribute to reframing our understanding of these processes. With a focus on mostly Germanic languages (Afrikaans, Dutch, English, German, Luxembourgish, and Norwegian), data-driven analyses include corpus linguistic investigations, elicited data, psycholinguistic experiments, and computational linguistic applications. A few contributions follow a mainly introspective path of reasoning based on the discussion of selected examples as in the analysis of creative compounds.

Overall, the volume provides a rich array of topics emerging under the umbrella of cognitive linguistic thought and established patterns and processes of word formation. The various studies add to a yet marginal body of research in cognitive word formation and, thus, advance our awareness about the benefits of applying cognitive linguistic thoughts for investigating processes of lexical creation.

Acknowledgments Introduction: unravelling the cognitive in word formation / Alexander Onysko and Sascha Michel Part I. Theory and interfaces in word formation: Word-formation or word formation? The formation of complex words in cognitive linguistics / Martina Lampert and Günther Lampert On the viability of cognitive morphology for explaining language change / Livio Gaeta (Re)defining component structures in morphological constructions: A Cognitive Grammar perspective / Gerhard B van Huyssteen Between phonology and morphology / Hilke Elsen The role of grammatical gender in noun-formation: A diachronic perspective from Norwegian / Philipp Conzett Adjective + Noun constructions between syntax and word formation in Dutch and German / Matthias Hüning Part II. Theory and processes of word formation: Setting limits on creativity in the production and use of metaphorical and metonymical compounds / Réka Benczes Casting the conceptual spotlight: Hybrid compounding in German as an example of head-frame internal specifier selection / Alexander Onysko Does love come from to love or to love from love? Why lexical motivation has to be regarded as bidirectional / Birgit Umbreit Doubler-upper nouns: A challenge for usage-based models of language? / Bert Cappelle The influence of morphological structure on the processing of German prefixed verbs / Judith Heide, Antje Lorenz, André Meinunger, and Frank Burchert Harvesting and understanding on-line neologisms / Tony Veale and Cristina Butnariu Subject Index Contributors. Frontmatter 1 Table of contents 7 Introduction: Unravelling the cognitive in word formation 9 Part I Theory and interfaces in word formation 35 Word-formation or word formation? The formation of complex words in Cognitive Linguistics 37 On the viability of cognitive morphology for explaining language change 83 (Re)defining component structures in morphological constructions: A Cognitive Grammar perspective 105 Between phonology and morphology 135 The role of grammatical gender in noun-formation: A diachronic perspective from Norwegian 155 Adjective + Noun constructions between syntax and word formation in Dutch and German 203 Part II Theory and processes of word formation 225 Setting limits on creativity in the production and use of metaphorical and metonymical compounds 227 Casting the conceptual spotlight: Hybrid compounding in German as an example of headframe internal specifier selection 251 Does love come from to love or to love from love? Why lexical motivation has to be regarded as bidirectional 309 Doubler-upper nouns: A challenge for usage-based models of language? 343 The influence of morphological structure on the processing of German prefixed verbs 383 Harvesting and understanding on-line neologisms 407 Backmatter 429 This volume is the first one to illuminate diverse aspects of word formation from cognitive perspectives. Guided by methodological pluralism, the contributions shed light on a variety of issues in word formation theory and on the interfaces between word formation and phraseology, phonology, and inflection. The majority of the studies focuses on individual types of word formation, reframing our understanding of these processes. Overall, the various contributions add to a yet marginal body of research in cognitive word formation and advance our awareness about the benefits of applying cognitive linguistic thoughts for investigating processes of lexical creation.