Pavol Štekauer

List of John Benjamins publications in which Pavol Štekauer is involved.

Titles

Meaning Predictability in Word Formation: Novel, context-free naming units

Pavol Štekauer

This book aims to contribute to a growing interest amongst psycholinguists and morphologists in the mechanisms of meaning predictability. It presents a brand-new model of the meaning-prediction of novel, context-free naming units, relating the wordformation and wordinterpretation processes. Unlike… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 54] 2005. xxii, 288 pp.

An Onomasiological Theory of English Word-Formation

Pavol Štekauer

Pavol Štekauer presents an original approach to the intricate problems of English word-formation. The emphasis is on the process of coining new naming units (words). This is described by an onomasiological model, which takes as its point of departure the naming needs of a speech community, and… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 46] 1998. x, 192 pp.

Articles

Štekauer, Pavol, Pavol Kačmár and Lívia Körtvélyessy 2020 On the influence of creativity upon the interpretation of complex words Semantics and Psychology of Complex Words, Gagné, Christina L. and Thomas L. Spalding (eds.), pp. 142–160 | Article

The paper is aimed at the evaluation of whether, and if, to what degree, the psychological factor of creativity affects the interpretation of complex words. The research covered 324 students (17–18 years old) who attended (at the time of the experiment) various secondary schools in Košice,… read more

Štekauer, Pavol 2005 Compounding and Affixation: Any Difference? Morphology and its demarcations: Selected papers from the 11th Morphology meeting, Vienna, February 2004, Dressler, Wolfgang U., Dieter Kastovsky, Oskar E. Pfeiffer and Franz Rainer (eds.), pp. 151–159 | Article