AN5014MA Perspectives on the Lexicon/AN5001MA Lexicology

Spring2014

Time: Monday10.00-11.40

Place: 106

Instructor: Cserép Attila

Office hours:Monday 13.00-14.00 and Tuesday 15.00-16.00

Office: 1/3

Course aim and material

The course will introduce you to the study of words. The topics to be covered include the linguistic sign, English morphology, types of word-formation (derivation, compounding, manufacture, initialism, clipping, blending, back-formation), productivity, syntactic and semantic issues in word-formation, meaning relations between words and the lexicon as a system. Word combinations will not be dealt with, since a separate course (Phraseology) is devoted to multi-word expressions.

Textbooks

The course packet

Lipka, Leonhard. 1992. An Outline of English Lexicology. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag.

Requirements and procedures

You are expected to read the assigned material and discuss the reading in class.

Assessment

Assessment will be based on an in-class mid-term essay (40%), an in-class end-term essay (40%) and students’ participation in seminar discussions (20%).

Week 1 / 17 Feb / Introduction
Week 2 / 24 Feb /

Lexicology, words, lexical units, the linguistic sign

Lipka: 2.1 Models of the sign, 2.1.1 Saussure’s Approach, 2.1.2 Ogden/Richard’s “Semiotic Triangle”, 2.3.2 The Ambiguity of ‘Word’, 2.3.3 Lexemes, lexical items, and word forms
Week 3 / 3 March /

Morphology: the internal structure of words

Haspelmath: 2.2 Morphemes, 2.3 Affixes, bases and roots, 2.4 Formal operations, 2.5 Morphemes and allomorphs, 2.6 Some difficulties in morpheme analysis
Bauer and Huddleston: 1.2 Morphological structure
Week 4 / 10 March /

Productivity

Haspelmath: 3.1 Productivity and the lexicon, Chapter 6 Productivity
Week 5 / 17 March / CONSULTATION WEEK
Week 6 / 24 March /

Derivation

Bauer and Huddleston: 5.1 Affixation and derivation: formal issues, 5.1.1 Kinds and combinations of affixes, 5.1.2 Morphophonological alternation, 5.1.3 Class I and Class II affixes, 5.1.4 Paradigmatic relations and affix-replacement
Week 7 / 31 March / Mid-term paper
Week 8 / 7April /

Compounding

Bauer and Huddleston: 4.1 Preliminaries, 4.2 Compound nouns, 4.2.1 Noun-centred compound nouns, 4.2.2 Verb-centred compound nouns, 4.5 Neo-classical compounds
Week 19 / 14 April /

Syntactic and semantic issues in word formation

Plag: Theoretical issues: modeling word-formation
Lipka: 3.2.3 Nominalizations
Week 10 / 21 April / EASTER
Week 11 / 28 April /

Minor word-formation processes

Bauer and Huddleston: 2 Minor word-formation processes, 2.1 Manufacture, 2.2 Initialism, 2.3 Clipping, 2.3.1 Plain clippings, 2.3.2 Embellished clippings, 2.4 Blending, 2.5 Back-formation, 2.6 Phonological modification, 3 Conversion, 3.1 The domain of conversion, 3.2 Conversion between nouns and verbs, 3.3 Conversion between adjectives and nouns, 3.4 Conversion between adjectives and verbs
Week 12 / 5 May /

The meaning of the word

Lipka: 2.2 The Meaning of Signs and Kinds of Meaning, 2.2.1 Language and Reality, 2.2.3 Denotation and Reference, 2.2.4 Other Kinds of Meaning, 2.2.5 Connotations and Markedness
Week 13 / 12 May /

Meaning relations

Lipka: 4.2 Paradigmatic relations, 4.2.1 Homonymy versus Polysemy, 4.2.3 Lexical Relations, Sense-Relations, and Lexical Semantics, 4.2.3.1 Synonymy, 4.2.3.2 Hyponymy and Incompatibility, 4.2.3.3 Complementarity, Antonymy, and Converseness

Week 14 / 19 May / End-term paper

Recommended material:

Adams, Valerie. 2001. Complex Words in English. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited.

Aitchison, Jean. 1994. Words in the Mind. Oxford: Blackwell.

Bauer, Laurie. 1983. English Word-formation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Bauer, Laurie. 1998. When is a sequence of two nouns a compound in English? English Language and Linguistics 2/1: 65-86.

Bauer, Laurie and Rodney Huddleston. 2002. Lexical word-formation. In: Huddleston, Rodney and Geoffrey K. Pullum. (eds.) The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Benczes, Réka. 2006. Creative Compounding in English: The Semantics of Metaphorical and Metonymical Noun-Noun Combinations. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Biber, Douglas, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey Leech, Susan Conrad and Edward Finegan. 1999. Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. Harlow: Longman.

Booij, Geert. 2007 (2nd edition) (2005 1st edition). The Grammar of Words: An Introduction to Linguistic Morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew. 2002. An Introduction to English Morphology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Carter, Ronald. 1998 (2ndedition) (19871stedition). Vocabulary. London and New York: Routledge.

Croft, William and D. Alan Cruse. 2004. Cognitive Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Cruse, D. A. 1986. Lexical Semantics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Cruse, D. Alan, Franz Hundsnurscher, Michael Job and Peter Rolf Lutzeier. (eds.) 2002. Lexikologie: Ein internazionales Handbuch zur Natur und Struktur von Wörtern und Wortschätzen1. Halbband. Lexicology: An International Handbook On the Nature and Structure of Words and Vocabularies Volume 1. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter.

Cruse, D. Alan, Franz Hundsnurscher, Michael Job and Peter Rolf Lutzeier. (eds.) 2005. Lexikologie: Ein internazionales Handbuch zur Natur und Struktur von Wörtern und Wortschätzen2. Halbband. Lexicology: An International Handbook On the Nature and Structure of Words and Vocabularies Volume 2. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter.

Crystal, David. 1995. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Crystal, David. 2006. Words, Words, Words. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press.

Haspelmath, Martin. 2002. Understanding Morphology. London: Arnold.

Hoey, Michael. 2005. Lexical Priming. London and New York: Routledge.

Jackson, Howard and Etienne Zé Amvela. 2007 (2ndedition) (2000 1stedition). Words, Meaning and Vocabulary. London and New York: Continuum.

Katamba, Francis. 2005(2ndedition) (1994 1stedition).English Words: Structure, History, Usage. Londonand New York: Routledge.

Katamba, Francis and John Stonham. 2006 (2ndedition) (1993 1stedition). Morphology. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Kövecses, Zoltán. 2002. Metaphor. A Practical Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Lipka, Leonhard. 2002 (3rdedition)(1992 2ndeditionAn Outline of English Lexicology Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag). English Lexicology.Tübingen: Narr.

Matthews, Peter. 1991 (2ndedition) (1974 1stedition).Morphology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

McArthur, Tom. (ed.) 1992. The Oxford Companion to the English Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Plag, Ingo. 2003. Word-formation in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Peters, Pam. 2004. The Cambridge Guide to English Usage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Quirk, Randolph, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvik. 1985. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman.

Singleton, David. 2000. Language and the Lexicon. London: Arnold.

Ungerer, Friedrich. 2007. Word-Formation. In: Geeraerts, Dirk and Hubert Cuyckens. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press.

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