Derivational paradigms and competition in English: a diachronic study on competing causative verbs and their derivatives

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Derivational paradigms and competition in English: a diachronic study on competing causative verbs and their derivatives

Original language description

Although there is no clear definition of competition in morphology, it is often described as a situation where two or more forms express the same semantic category (if no restrictions apply). Viewing word-formation as a complex network where elements are interrelated, this paper attempts to describe to which extent a description of derivation in terms of paradigms can help understand morphological competition. This paradigm-competition interaction is expected to be bidirectional, such that the paradigms of two competitors serve as extra evidence for defining competition. At the same time, paradigm theory can benefit from the identification of competing patterns as it may help to specify whether two forms compete for the same semantic niche or not. Based on a sample of 45 Present-Day English verbal clusters where forms in -ize and zero-derivation compete (or did compete) for the expression of the semantic category causative, this paper elaborates on previous research on diachronic competition in two ways. Methodologically, this paper complements the method used in previous research by constructing the subparadigms for the competing verbs while considering both available and unavailable derivatives and using lexicographic and corpus data. At the same time, this approach allows us to offer a more complete description of competition by exploring to what extent the subparadigms of the forms in competition may be used to refine our understanding of the competition and how this can be exploited methodologically.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60203 - Linguistics

Project

<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000734" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000734: Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

SKASE: Journal of Theoretical Linguistics [online]

ISSN

1336-782X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

15

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

29

Pages from-to

69-97

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85072337534