The Treatment of Affixes in the 'Big Four' Efl Dictionaries1

Prćić, Tvrtko

doi:10.1093/ijl/12.4.263

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“…The subject of this study is the Oxford Dictionary of Construction, Surveying and Civil Engineering as well as some other authentic materials concerning this field. There have been studies on the word formation aspect in different native/ one language dictionaries and dictionaries for teaching purposes aaccording to Jackson, 2000, de Caluwe & Taeldeman, 2003Dardano et al, 2006) (Prćić, 1999, 2005, 2008ten Hacken et al, 2006). On the topic of teaching dictionaries, (Hacken, P ten et al 2006: 254) points out that the correct reveal of word formation in it is an asset in the acquisition of vocabulary" for three main reasons: a) deciphering words that the student does not know, b) Creating/ Producing new words when the student has not yet acquired the standard word, and c) a strong network structure in the mental lexicon, which facilitates vocabulary acquisition.…”

Section: Affixes and Compounds In Civil Engineering Areamentioning

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Some Peculiarities of Word-Formation Mechanisms in the Area of Civil Engineering

Plaku

2023

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Teaching, Learning and Education

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The purpose of this paper is to give emphasis to the issue of civil engineering terminology, more precisely word-formation mechanisms in this field of study. Terminology is the science studying the structure, formation, development, usage and management of terms. Dissimilar and sometimes contrasting definitions are given to terminology and terms, however there is a common denominator, which shows that terms behave differently within certain morphological and syntactic rules. With reference to the above, for the acquisition of the civil engineering terminology be done appropriately, one should have some general knowledge regarding word-formation mechanism of terms in a certain specialty, respectively, civil engineering. From this perspective, as far as terminology acquisition is concerned, a great importance should be given to the inner and outer (loanwords) word-formation mechanisms. In the main, in this paper a detailed observation will be implemented on a terminological dictionary concerning civil engineering. Special attention will be devoted to the morphological aspects of word formation, such as prefixes, suffixes and compounds in civil engineering terminology. These three word-formation peculiarities predominate by being the most frequently used mechanisms. From the observation it was determined that compound terms (around 2000) are the mechanisms prevailing, referent to the frequency of productivity, followed by prefixes and suffixes. Concerning prefixes, it should be emphasized the fact that there were more than 30 prefixes present in this dictionary but only 10 were really productive. The prefixes having negative connotations were distinguished to have a high frequency of productivity throughout the observation, such as in-, anti-, non-, un etc. While suffixes on the other hand, being the third most productive mechanisms in this dictionary, were distinguished for their productivity on creating mostly nouns out of other word classes and expressing processes actions or states.

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Section: Affixes and Compounds In Civil Engineering Areamentioning

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Some Peculiarities of Word-Formation Mechanisms in the Area of Civil Engineering

Plaku

2023

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Teaching, Learning and Education

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“…However, closer examination of lexicographical data reveals that derivational affixes and derivatives are not well-represented in bilingual dictionaries and that much remains to be done to adequately include word-formation in dictionaries (see e.g. Prcic, 1999;ten Hacken et al, 2006;Cartoni, 2008b;Lefer, 2009). The survey also shows that very few studies rely on computerised corpora as the main source of data (notable exceptions are Mauroux and Paillard, 2006;Maniez, 2001;and Cvilikaité, 2005).…”

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Prefixes in contrast

Lefer

Cartoni

2011

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This paper proposes a meaning-based contrastive methodology for the study of prefixation in English, French and Italian which is easily adaptable to other languages and word-formation processes. Our discussion centres on some of the central methodological and theoretical issues involved in contrastive lexical morphology, an area which, to date, has largely remained under-researched. Precise defining criteria for derivative (and prefix) status are presented in order to decide what counts as a derivative (or as a prefix) and what does not. Emphasis is also put on a fined-grained semantictertium comparationiselaborated for the cross-linguistic investigation of lexical morphology and based on a six-tiered semantic categorisation,viz.location, evaluation, negation, quantity, modality, and inchoativity, most of which are further divided into finer subcategories. This macro-approach makes it possible to draw important generalisations about the use of word-formation devices across languages.

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Suffixes vs Final Combining Forms in English: A Lexicographic Perspective

Prćić¹

2007

International Journal of Lexicography

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The Treatment of Affixes in the 'Big Four' Efl Dictionaries1

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Some Peculiarities of Word-Formation Mechanisms in the Area of Civil Engineering

Some Peculiarities of Word-Formation Mechanisms in the Area of Civil Engineering

Prefixes in contrast

Suffixes vs Final Combining Forms in English: A Lexicographic Perspective

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