Graduierung der Transparenz von Diminutiven auf -chen: Eine korpuslinguistische Untersuchung

Ransmayr, Jutta; Schwaiger, Sonja; Durco, Matej; Pirker, Hannes; Dressler, Wolfgang U.

doi:10.37307/j.1868-775x.2016.03.05

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“…For ADS, the data from the exhaustive Austrian Media Corpus (AMC) have been systematically enriched with the methods of the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities of the Austrian Academy of Sciences followed also here (cf. Ransmayr et al 2016, Ransmayr 2018.…”

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Communication with diminutives to young children vs. pets in German, Italian, Lithuanian, Russian, and English

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This contribution is dedicated to Steven Gillis with whom we have collaborated since the nineties within the “Crosslinguistic Project on Pre- and Protomorphology in Language Acquisition” on both child speech (CS) and child-directed speech (CDS) and also about the development of diminutives (DIMs). We investigate parallels in the use of DIMs and of hypocoristics (HYPs) between CDS and pet-directed speech (PDS), whereas CS is only marginally dealt with. When relevant, also adult-directed speech (ADS), written or oral (especially from electronic corpora, wherever available) will be compared. The presuppositions of this investigation will be stated at the beginning of the Introduction (§ 1). This involves several innovations (beyond descriptions of new data), when compared with existing literature, relevant to theoretical and typological problem areas. We will show that also in DIMs and HYPs used in CDS and PDS semantics only plays a partial or even marginal role when using more DIMs to communicate with young children and young and/or small pets, because it is more relevant that both younger and smaller pets are emotionally closer to us, which is again a pragmatic factor. In regard to language typology, we will apply our concepts of morphological richness and productivity, as argued for and supported in our previous publications, to CDS and PDS and show that richer and more productive patterns of DIM formation of a language also have a typological impact on more frequent and more productive use both in CDS and PDS. We will also apply our concepts of grading morphosemantic transparency/opacity, as argued for and supported in our previous publications, and we start to show, as already shown for CS, that also in CDS towards young children (and similarly in PDS) more morphosemantically transparent DIMs are used than in ADS. This is also connected to their predominantly pragmatic meanings in CDS and PDS (obviously not exclusively pragmatic as in early CS). The languages and authors were selected according to who among the participants in the Crosslinguistic Project on Pre- and Protomorphology in Language Acquisition had CDS and PDS available, plus Elisa Mattiello who has collected English and Italian PDS data.

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“…Our view on morphosemantic transparency/opacity has been developed from Dressler (1985), to Dressler et al (2016), Ransmayr et al (2016) and Mattiello & Dressler (2019), cf. Talamo et al (2016), resulting in models of grading morphosemantic transparency/opacity in various degrees of fineness.…”

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Communication with diminutives to young children vs. pets in German, Italian, Lithuanian, Russian, and English

Dressler¹,

Mattiello²,

Korecky‐Kröll³

et al. 2022

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Dualism and superposition in the analysis of English synthetic compounds ending in-er

Mattiello

Dressler

2022

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This article studies the role of synthetic-compound families, both formal families and their semantic (or rather conceptual) subfamilies, in the analysis of synthetic compounds (SCs). For this purpose, four formal families of English non-Latinate synthetic compounds sharing their second base and three Latinate families have been investigated. Unlike previous approaches ranging from a purely syntactic treatment of SCs to a more lexical treatment, this study aims at providing a novel explanation for these complex formations. First, it argues that SCs have an ambiguous nature, hovering between (a) morphological suffixation of a verb/word group and (b) morphological derivation and subsequent compounding. Second, it emphasizes the importance of compound families and subfamilies in SCs’ formation and interpretation. By combining a corpus-based analysis with a qualitative synchronic and diachronic investigation of seven compound families – namely X-breaker, X-holder, X-killer, X-maker, X-manager, X-producer, and X-provider – the article provides a fine-grained semantic categorization of their subfamilies. Results show that (a) a homogeneous approach to SCs is not sufficient to account for observations in corpus data and (b) there are different types of SCs reflecting different constructional types. Nearly all results from questionnaires completed by native speakers confirm, or are at least compatible with our results. From a theoretical viewpoint, these results suggest a novel addition to the definition of productivity in word-formation: i.e., the ability to create new (sub-)families. The basic ambiguity between a derivational and compositional analysis of SCs can be resolved by assuming dualism and superposition of suffixing and compounding, similar to Albert Einstein’s assumption of duality and superposition of waves and particles (photons) for light. Thus, several subfamilies (clearly or predominantly) consist of derivations, others of compounds, still others show superposition of both, and at least partial superposition seems to be possible for most of the other subfamilies.

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On inadequacies in transferring concepts from one to another (linguistic sub)discipline

Dressler

2016

Yearbook of the Poznan Linguistic Meeting

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The paper discusses several methodological problems in the necessary (mostly metaphorical) transfer of concepts from one discipline (or subdiscipline) into another one, especially when interdisciplinary research demands mutual understanding in terms of translation and correspondence of concepts. After differentiating between multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity, the first is rejected and it is pleaded that the second and third should be combined. Several adequate and inadequate transfers of concepts into linguistics are dealt with, especially in the areas of morphology and language acquisition. Successful transfer is characterised by the formal transfer of new terms and their easy adaptation to already existing linguistic conceptions, especially between subdisciplines. Most often, further important differentiations of a concept cannot be transferred from the original discipline but must be added as enrichments within linguistics itself. This may lead to a split-up of concepts in different subdisciplines of linguistics. The concepts discussed are regression, self-organization, complexity, transparency vs. opacity, figure and ground, top-down processing, default, input, grammaticalisation.

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Graduierung der Transparenz von Diminutiven auf -chen: Eine korpuslinguistische Untersuchung

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Communication with diminutives to young children vs. pets in German, Italian, Lithuanian, Russian, and English

Communication with diminutives to young children vs. pets in German, Italian, Lithuanian, Russian, and English

Dualism and superposition in the analysis of English synthetic compounds ending in-er

On inadequacies in transferring concepts from one to another (linguistic sub)discipline

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