Morphology and Meaning : Selected Papers From the 15th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, February 2012

The problem of form and meaning in morphology has produced an impressive amount of scholarly work over the last hundred years. Nevertheless, many issues continue to be in need of clarification. The present volume assembles 18 selected papers from the 15th International Morphology Meeting (Vienna, 9–12 February 2012) relating to this vast field of research. The introduction provides a detailed overview of the state of the art in the field. It is followed by three articles derived from the plenaries that are dedicated to fundamental issues such as the relationship between morphological meaning and concepts, between word formation and meaning change, as well as indirect coding. The section papers tackle a wide array of issues, including affixal polysemy, pathways of grammaticalization, the processing of compounds, mismatches between form and meaning, synonymy avoidance, or the semantics of specific patterns of noun incorporation, compounding, reduplication and mimetic verbs. Editors’ introduction: Franz Rainer, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Francesco Gardani and Hans Christian Luschützky: Morphology and meaning. An overview Plenary papers: Paolo Acquaviva: Roots, concepts, and word structure. On the atoms of lexical semantics Peter Koch: Between word formation and meaning change Christian Lehmann: Indirect coding Section papers: Giorgio Francesco Arcodia: Diachrony and the polysemy of derivational affixes Iveta Chovanová and Pavel Štichauer: Possessive compounds in Slavic and the Principle of Integrated Meronymy Christina L. Gagné and Thomas L. Spalding: Relation diversity and ease of processing for opaque and transparent English compounds Arja Hamari: Inflection vs. derivation. The function and meaning of the Mordvin abessive Nabil Hathout and Fiammetta Namer: Discrepancy between form and meaning in word-formation. The case of over- and under-marking in French Sven Kotowski, Katja Böer and Holden Härtl: Compounds vs. phrases. The cognitive status of morphological products Gary Libben and Silke Weber: Semantic transparency, compounding, and the nature of independent variables Ana R. Luís: The layering of form and meaning in creole word-formation. A view from construction morphology Ramón Martí Solano: Semantic headedness and categorization of -cum- compounds Karlheinz Mörth and Wolfgang U. Dressler: German plural doublets with and without meaning differentiation Alessio Muro: On the form and meaning of double noun incorporation Elke Ronneberger-Sibold: Tuning morphosemantic transparency by shortening. A cross-linguistic perspective Batia Seroussi: Root transparency and the morphology-meaning interface. Data from Hebrew Natsuko Tsujimura: Mimetic verbs and meaning Philipp Weisser: Mismatch verbs. A unified account of unaccusatives and deponents Katerina Zombolou and Artemis Alexiadou: The canonical function of the deponent verbs in modern Greek Language index Subject index Morphology and meaning : an overview / Franz Rainer, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Francesco Gardani & Hans Christian Luschützky Roots, concepts, and word structure : on the atoms of lexical semantics / Paolo Acquaviva Between word-formation and meaning change / Peter Koch Indirect coding / Christian Lehmann Diachrony and the polysemy of derivational affixes / Giorgio Arcodia Possessive compounds in Slavic and the principle of integrated meronymy / Iveta Chovanová & Pavel Štichauer Relation diversity and ease of processing for opaque and transparent English compounds / Christina L. Gagné & Thomas L. Spalding Inflection vs. derivation : the function and meaning of the Mordvin abessive / Arja Hamari Discrepancy between form and meaning in word formation : the case of over- and under-marking in French / Nabil Hathout & Fiammetta Namer Compounds vs. phrases : the cognitive status of morphological products / Sven Kotowski, Katja Böer & Holden Härtl Semantic transparency, compounding, and the nature of independent variables / Gary Libben & Silke Weber The layering of form and meaning in Creole word-formation : a view from construction morphology / Ana R. Luís Semantic headedness and categorisation of -cum- compounds / Ramón Martí Solano German plural doublets with and without meaning differentiation / Karlheinz Mörth & Wolfgang U. Dressler On the form and meaning of double noun incorporation / Alessio Muro Tuning morphosemantic transparency by shortening : a cross-linguistic perspective / Elke Ronneberger-Siebold Root transparency and the morphology-meaning interface : data from Hebrew / Batia Seroussi Mimetic verbs and meaning / Natsuko Tsujimura Mismatch verbs : a unified account of unaccusatives and deponents / Philipp Weisser The canonical function of the deponent verbs in Modern Greek / Katerina Zombolou & Artemis Alexiadou.