AN5014MA Perspectives on the Lexicon/AN5001MA Lexicology

AN5014MA Perspectives on the Lexicon/AN5001MA Lexicology Spring 2013 Time: Monday 12.00-13.40 Place: XVI/3 Instructor: Cserép Attila Office hours: Monday 17.00-18.00 and Tuesday 17.00-18.00 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 11 Feb Introduction

Week 2 18 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 25 Feb 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 4 March Productivity Haspelmath: 3.1 Productivity and the lexicon, Chapter 6 Productivity

Week 5 11 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 6 18 March 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

1 Week 7 25 March Mid-term paper

Week 8 1 April CONSULTATION WEEK

Week 9 8 April Syntactic and semantic issues in word formation Plag: Theoretical issues: modeling word-formation Lipka: 3.2.3 Nominalizations

Week 10 15 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 11 22 April 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 12 29 April LAST WEEK FOR FINAL YEAR STUDENTS

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 13 6 May The history of words Katamba: Ch 7 A lexical mosaic (on separate handout) Katamba 8.6.1-8.6.6 (on separate handout)

Week 14 13 May End-term paper

Week 15 20 May HOLIDAY

Recommended material: Adams, Valerie. 2001. Complex Words in English. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited. Aitchison, Jean. 1994. Words in the Mind. Oxford: Blackwell. Asher, R. E. and J. M. Y. Simpson. (eds.) 1994. The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Oxford: Pergamon Press. 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.

2 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 (2nd edition) (1987 1st edition). 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 Wortschätzen 1. 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 Wortschätzen 2. 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: Oxford University 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 (2nd edition) (2000 1st edition). Words, Meaning and Vocabulary. London and New York: Continuum. Katamba, Francis. 2005 (2nd edition) (1994 1st edition). English Words: Structure, History, Usage. London and New York: Routledge. Katamba, Francis and John Stonham. 2006 (2nd edition) (1993 1st edition). Morphology. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Kövecses, Zoltán. 2002. Metaphor. A Practical Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Lipka, Leonhard. 2002 (3rd edition) (1992 2nd edition An Outline of English Lexicology Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag). English Lexicology. Tübingen: Narr. Matthews, Peter. 1991 (2nd edition) (1974 1st edition). 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: Oxford University Press.

3 Online sources: http://www.worldwidewords.org/index.htm http://wordspy.com/ http://www.word-detective.com/