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Theory of Conversion in English

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The book provides a comprehensive theory of conversion in English based on the onomasiological method of word-formation research, and on a theory of linguistic signs.

The manuscript presents extensive arguments for rejecting the zero-morpheme theory.

Its focus is on an original model of conversion that underlies the analysis of phonological aspects of conversion, a theory of the predictability of meanings of new coinages, the semiotic nature of conversion-related proper names, primary-secondary relations, and a number of other issues of conversion in the English language.

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Peter Lang GmbH
3631302320 / 9783631302323
Paperback / softback
420.141
01/11/1996
Germany
155 pages, 1fig.
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