Measuring Productivity in Word Formation: The Case of Israeli Hebrew (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics)

Bolozky, Shmuel

 
9789004112520: Measuring Productivity in Word Formation: The Case of Israeli Hebrew (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics)
ISBN 10: 9004112529 ISBN 13: 9789004112520
Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB, 1999

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Morphological productivity is the likelihood of a morphological pattern being used or comprehended in new word formation. Three methods of measuring productivity of word formation are proposed productivity tests (open-ended and judgment tasks), dictionary comparison (newer with older dictionaries, supplements with earlier versions), and the ratio of hapax legomena to tokens in corpora. Processes which score highly by all three criteria can safely be regarded as productive. The model is examined in light of data from Israeli Hebrew, which as a Semitic language offers a rich array of discontinuous and linear derivation patterns.
The Hebrew data also support the claims that in essence, lexical formation is semantically based; that it is constrained by a requirement for distinctiveness; and that it may vary significantly with the type of derivation base.

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Shmuel Bolozky, Ph.D. (1972) in Linguistics, University of Illinois, is Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has published extensively on Israeli Hebrew phonology and morphology and their application to the teaching of Hebrew.

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Verlag
BRILL ACADEMIC PUB
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9004112529
ISBN 13 
9789004112520
Einband
Ledereinband
Anzahl der Seiten
253
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