Full Description
This book provides a detailed account of morphological conversion-also known by various other names, including zero-derivation- a process whereby a word is turned into a distinct but semantically and/or grammatically related word without any change of form. Following an introductory chapter that offers an overview of morphological conversion and the main questions of interest, the volume is divided into two parts. In the first, contributors consider a range of issues relating to conversion, such as word classes, inflection, figurative language, and directionality. The chapters in the second part explore specific typological aspects of the process of conversion in a wide range of language families, including Austronesian, Dravidian, Indo-European, and Tupian. The volume offers new perspectives on conversion, moving beyond traditional Anglocentric approaches that have dominated the field to date.
Contents
1: Laurie Bauer and Salvador Valera: Conversion: The core issues
Part I. Theoretical issues
2: Antonio Fábregas: The analysis of conversion: Historiography
3: John Mansfield: Word classes
4: Anna M. Thornton: Conversion and inflection
5: Alexandra Soares Rodrigues: Conversion and other word-formation processes
6: Gianina Iordăchioaia: The position of conversion in word-formation
7: Bożena Cetnarowska: Conversion and coercion
8: Heike Baeskow: The semantics of conversion
9: Réka Benczes and Lilla Petronella Szabó: Conversion and figurative language
10: Gergana Popova: Directionality
Part II. Description and typology
11: Akiko Nagano: Japonic: Japanese
12: Livio Gaeta: Indo-European: Germanic and Romance
13: Magda Ševčíková and Jurgis Pakerys: Indo-European: Slavic and Baltic
14: Daniel Kaufman, Nathan Adamson, Victoria Chen, Bradley McDonnell, and Olivia Waring: Austronesian: Tagalog and Indonesian
15: Wolf Dietrich: Tupian: Guaraní
16: Olga Lovick: Dene: Upper Tanana
17: Giorgio Francesco Arcodia: Sino-Tibetan: Chinese (Mandarin/Cantonese)
18: László Palágyi: Uralic: Hungarian
19: Ora (Rodrigue) Schwarzwald: Semitic: Hebrew
20: Pingali Sailaja: Dravidian: Telugu
21: Xabier Artiagoitia: Basque
Laurie Bauer: Conclusion and retrospective
