Cover not available

In:Paradigms in Word Formation: Theory and applications
Edited by Alba E. Ruz, Cristina Fernández-Alcaina and Cristina Lara-Clares
[Studies in Language Companion Series 225] 2022
► pp. 3–18

Get fulltext from our e-platform
JBE logo with link
PDF logo with download linkDownload Book PDF
authorization required

Chapter 1
Dangerous liaisons

An introduction to derivational paradigms

 | University of Turin
Published online: 19 September 2022
DOI logo with link
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.225.01gae
Article outline
  • 1.Paradigms we live by
  • 2.Associative relations and derivational paradigms: A plea for the unity of morphology
  • 3.Paradigms for word formation
  • 4.The paradigmatic dimension and the return of lexicality
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
References (42)
References
Anderson, Stephen R. 1992. A-Morphous Morphology. Cambridge: CUP. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Bauer, Laurie. 2002. What you can do with derivational morphology. In Morphology 2000: Selected Papers from the 9th Morphology Meeting, Vienna, 24–28 February 2000 [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 218], Sabrina Bendjaballah, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Oskar E. Pfeiffer & Maria D. Voeikova (eds), 37–48. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Bauer, Laurie, Lieber, Rochelle & Plag, Ingo. 2013. The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology. Oxford: OUP. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Becker, Thomas. 1990. Analogie und morphologische Theorie. München: Fink.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 1993. Back-formation, cross-formation, and ‘bracketing paradoxes’ in paradigmatic morphology. In Yearbook of Morphology 1993, Geert Booij & Jaap van Marle (eds), 1–25. Dordrecht: Kluwer. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Blevins, James P. 2016. Word and Paradigm Morphology. Oxford: OUP. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Bonami, Olivier & Strnadová, Jana. 2019. Paradigm structure and predictability in derivational morphology. Morphology 29: 167–197. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Booij, Geert. 1993. Against split morphology. In Yearbook of Morphology 1993, Geert Booij & Jaap van Marle (eds), 27–49. Dordrecht: Kluwer. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Booij, Geert & Hüning, Matthias. 2014. Affixoids and constructional idioms. In Extending the Scope of Construction Grammar, Ronny Boogaart, Timothy Colleman & Gijsbert Rutten (eds), 77–106. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Brinton, Laurel J. & Traugott, Elizabeth C. 2005. Lexicalization and Language Change. Cambridge: CUP. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Diewald, Gabriele. 2020. Paradigms lost – paradigms regained. Paradigms as hyper-constructions. In Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar [Constructional Approaches to Language 27], Lotte Sommerer & Elena Smirnova (eds), 277–315. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Gaeta, Livio. 1998. Some remarks on analogy, reanalysis and grammaticalization. In The Limits of Grammaticalization [Typological Studies in Language 37], Anna Giacalone Ramat & Paul J. Hopper (eds), 89–105. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2004. Exploring grammaticalization from below. In What Makes Grammaticalization? A Look from its Fringes and its Components, Walter Bisang, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann & Björn Wiemer (eds), 45–75. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2010. Analogical change. In Continuum Companion to Historical Linguistics, Silvia Luraghi & Vit Bubenik (eds), 147–160. London: Continuum.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2013. Affix ordering and conversion: Looking for the place of zero. Lingue e Linguaggio 12(2): 145–170.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2015. Action nouns in Romance. In Word-Formation. An International Handbook of the Languages of Europe, Vol. 2, Peter O. Müller, Ingeborg Ohnheiser, Susan Olsen & Franz Rainer (eds), 1209–1229. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2016. Co-opting exaptation in a theory of language change. In Exaptation in Language Change [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 336], Muriel Norde & Freek Van de Velde (eds), 57–92. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Gaeta, Livio & Angster, Marco. 2019. Stripping paradigmatic relations out of the syntax. Morphology 29(2): 249–270. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Geeraerts, Dirk. 2010. Theories of Lexical Semantics. Oxford: OUP. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Górska, Elżbieta. 1994. Moonless nights and smoke-free cities, or what can be without what? A cognitive study of privative adjectives in English. Folia Linguistica 28(3–4): 413–435. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Greenberg, Joseph H. 1991. The last stages of grammatical elements: Contractive and expansive desemanticization. In Approaches to Grammaticalization, Vol. 1 [Typological Studies in Language 19(1)], Elizabeth C. Traugott & Bernd Heine (eds), 301–14. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Haspelmath, Martin. 1989. From purposive to infinitive. A universal path of grammaticization. Folia Linguistica Historica 10(1–2): 287–310. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Hopper, Paul J. 1994. Phonogenesis. In Perspectives on Grammaticalization [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 109], William Pagliuca (ed.), 29–45. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
1998. The paradigm at the end of the universe. In The Limits of Grammaticalization [Typological Studies in Language 37], Anna Giacalone Ramat & Paul J. Hopper (eds), 147–158. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Hopper, Paul J. & Traugott, Elizabeth C. 1993. Grammaticalization. Cambridge: CUP.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
2003. Grammaticalization, 2nd edn. Cambridge: CUP. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Hüning, Matthias & Booij, Geert. 2014. From compounding to derivation. The emergence of derivational affixes through “constructionalization”. Folia Linguistica 48(2): 579–604. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Kastovsky, Dieter. 1996. Verbal derivation in English: A historical survey or Much Ado About Nothing. In English Historical Linguistics 1994 [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 135], Derek Britton (ed.), 93–117. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Lehmann, Volkmar. 2015. Categories of word-formation. In Word Formation. An International Handbook of the Languages of Europe, Vol. 2, Peter O. Müller, Ingeborg Ohnheiser, Susan Olsen & Franz Rainer (eds), 1020–1034. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Lehmann, Christian. 2020. Univerbation. Folia Linguistica Historica 41(1): 205–252. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Migliorini, Bruno. 1935. I prefissoidi (il tipo aeromobile, radiodiffusione). Archivio Glottologico Italiano 27: 13–39 (repr. in Idem (1963), Saggi sulla lingua del Novecento. Firenze: Sansoni, 9–60).Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Paul, Hermann. [1920] 1995. Prinzipien der Sprachgeschichte. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer (English Translation by Herbert A. Strong. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1891).Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
de Saussure, Ferdinand. [1916]1995. Cours de Linguistique Générale, edited by Tullio De Mauro. Paris: Payot (English Translation by Wade Baskin. New York NY: Philosophical Library, 1959).Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Seiler, Hansjakob. 1975. Die Prinzipien der deskriptiven und der etikettierenden Benennung. In Linguistic Workshop III. Arbeiten des Kölner Universalienprojekts, Hansjakob Seiler (ed), 2–57. München: Wilhelm Fink.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Štekauer, Pavol. 2005. Onomasiological approach to word-formation. In Handbook of Word-Formation, Pavol Štekauer & Rochelle Lieber (eds), 207–232. Dordrecht: Springer. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2014. Derivational paradigms. In The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology, Rochelle Lieber & Pavol Štekauer (eds), 354–369. Oxford: OUP. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Stevens, Christopher M. 2005. Revisiting the affixoid debate: On the grammaticalization of the word. In Grammatikalisierung im Deutschen, Torsten Leuschner, Tanja Mortelmans & Sarah De Groodt (eds), 71–83. Berlin: De Gruyter. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Stump, Gregory. 2020. Paradigm Function Morphology: Assumptions and Innovations. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. OUP. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Szczepaniak, Renata. 2009. Grammatikalisierung im Deutschen: Eine Einführung. Tübingen: Gunter Narr.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Traugott, Elizabeth C. & Trousdale, Graeme. 2013. Constructionalization and Constructional Changes. Oxford: OUP. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Van Goethem, Kristel. 2008. Oud-leerling versus ancien élève: A comparative study of adjectives grammaticalizing into prefixes in Dutch and French. Morphology 18: 27–49. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
van Marle, Jaap. 1985. On the Paradigmatic Dimension of Morphological Creativity. Dordrecht: Foris.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Cited by (1)

Cited by one other publication

Gaeta, Livio & Fabio Montermini
2025. Back-formation in a new theoretical universe: An introduction. Word Structure 18:3 ► pp. 149 ff. DOI logo

This list is based on CrossRef data as of 3 december 2025. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.

Mobile Menu Logo with link to supplementary files background Layer 1 prag Twitter_Logo_Blue