Word formation – Exam questions (Stekauer)
-scope of word formation according to marchand
-marchand’s expansion, transposition and derivation
-definition of word and morpheme
-two classes of wf processes reflecting marchand’s criteria
-lee’s 8 types of compounds
-the basic principles of lees 1960 theory of compound generation
-major criticism of lees by marchand
-lees 1970 version of transformational account of compound generation
-kastovskys transformationalist approach to compound generation
-give a scheme of halles model of wf
-explain the role of filter in halles model of wf
-explain three types of idiosyncrasies in halles model
-what is the difference btw list of morphemes and the dictionary of words in halles model
-give an example of phonological conditioning of wf rules in halles model
-explain aronoffs word based theory
-explain aronoffs approach to productivity
-explain aronoffs model of semantic coherence
-explain aronoffs principle of blocking
-explain siegels level ordering hypothesis
-explain the phonological differences between 2 classes of affixes in siegels theory
-explain the structural difference between 2 classes of affixes in siegels theory
-explain allens extended ordering hypothesis
-explain allens adjacency condition
-explain allens variable R condition
-explain allens IS A condition
-explain liebers feature percolation conventions 1,2
-explain liebers feature percolation conventions 3
-explain liebers feature percolation conventions 4
-explain Williams rhr and relativized head rule
-explain Selkirk revised rhr
-explain bauers conception of productivity (actual, potential, possible and probable words)
-explain bauers distinction between availability and profitability
-explain bauers distinction btw type and token frequencies
-explain bauers computation of productivity in wf
-explain baayens computation of productivity in wf
-explain the difference btw morphematic and non-morphematic processes
-explain the difference btw payable, reliable vs. fashionable, respectable
-explain the principle of class changing and class maintaining affixation
-the basic principle of conversion
-explain conversion and zero derivation
-explain the peculiarity of words like strawberry and gooseberry
-explain the nature of acronyms and clippings. Are they wf processes? Justify your claim
-origin of English affixes
-draw a scheme of onomasiological model of wf
-explain the relation btw extralinguistic reality, speech community and conceptual level
-explain the terms logical predicates and logical spectrum
-explain the role of the onomasiological and the onomatological levels
-explain the morpheme-to-seme assignment principle
-explain the interrelation btw the lexical component and the wf component
-explain the basic principles of a theory of conversion as conceptual recategorization
-explain onomasiological type
-explain onomasiological type 2,3
-explain onomasiological type 4
-explain the principles of productivity from the onomasiological point of view
-explain productivity at the level of onomasiological types
-explain the productivity at the level of wf types
-explain productivity at the level of morphological types
-explain the basic structure of the onomasiological level according to dolulil
-what is meant by contextuals
-explain the term nonce-formation
-explain kastovskys term systematic lexicalization
-explain the term deitic compounds
-explain bauers term institutionalization
-explain bauers account of lexicalization
-give examples of phonological, morphological, semantic and syntactic types of lexicalization
-explain lipkas concept of demotivation and idiomatization + examples
-explain and exemplify lipkas three subtypes of lexicalization
-explain metaphor and metonymy + give examples
-explain demotivation due to the extralinguistic changes + examples
-explain the difference between token blocking and type blocking
-give examples of phonological constraints on productivity
-give examples of morphological constraints on productivity
-give examples of syntactic constraints on productivity
-give examples of semantic constraints on productivity
-give at least five criteria of compoundhood
-explain the relevance of spelling and stress as criteria of compoundhood
-explain uninterruptability (inseparability) of a compound as a criterion of compoundhood and give exceptions (note – phrasal verbs) to this rule
-explain the semantic criterion of the compoundhood
-explain the difference btw endocentric and exocentric compounds
-explain the difference btw primary and synthetic compounds
-explain the recursiveness in compounding
-explain the difference btw determinative and coordinative compounds
-explain neoclassical compounds
-explain term identical constituent compounds, give some examples and identify their prototypical meanings for Nouns, Adjectives and Adverbs