Papers by Elizaveta Tarasova
Adj+ie/y Nominalizations in Contemporary English
The Grammar of Hate
Iconicity and word-formation
Belgian Journal of Linguistics, Volume 34 (2020), 2020
This article aims to encourage a discussion of how evaluative morphemes conform to the principles... more This article aims to encourage a discussion of how evaluative morphemes conform to the principles of iconicity and Construction Grammar through the examination of English Adj+ie/y nominalisations (e.g. brownie, softie). Our analysis of the Adj+ie/y paradigm investigates conceptual processes that employ these evaluative morphological forms. We propose a Bidirectional Conceptualisation Model (BCM) to demonstrate a templatic correlation between iconic morphological components and evaluative connotations, by means of which the suffix -ie/y is employed to instantiate a specific iconic value of the [[x-]A ie/y]N construction. The BCM incorporates the Diminution: Pejoration ↔ Endearment scale, which accounts for the semantic duality of appreciative and depreciative values realised by the morphological concept of diminution. The results of the study support the idea that superficially different functions realised by one and the same morphological form are related through interaction of Idea...
Of Brownie Girls and Aussie Families: A New Look at Morphosemantic Paradigmaticity in Adj+ie/y Nominalisations
Paradigmatic Relations in Word Formation, 2020
On twittizens and city residents
Semantics and Psychology of Complex Words, 2020
The present study analyses native speaker perceptions of the differences in the semantic structur... more The present study analyses native speaker perceptions of the differences in the semantic structure of compounds and blends to specify whether the formal differences between compounds and blends are reflected on the semantic level. Viewpoints on blending vary, with some researchers considering it to be an instance of compounding (Kubozono, 1990), while others identify blending as an interim word formation mechanism between compounding and shortening (López Rúa, 2004). The semantic characteristics of English determinative blends and N+N subordinative compounds are compared by evaluating the differences in native speakers’ perceptions of the semantic relationships between constituents of the analysed structures. The results of two web-based experiments demonstrate that readers’ interpretations of both compounds and blends differ in terms of lexical indicators of semantic relations between the elements of these units. The experimental findings indicate that language users’ interpretatio...
This paper considers the meaning relationships holding between the elements of endocentric nomina... more This paper considers the meaning relationships holding between the elements of endocentric nominal compounds in English, and argues that the same relationships are found in a number of different constructions in which a noun is modified by another noun. That being the case, the relationships are not specific to compounding, and must arise from the nature of the modification. It may thus be that the relationships could be captured by a single relationship which is suitably underspecified. Evidence against such a position is also considered, and a solution is proposed which allows the benefits of both a single relationship and multiple relationships to be captured.
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Inglesess
The current research is focused on the English N+N pattern, which is widely reported to have been... more The current research is focused on the English N+N pattern, which is widely reported to have been borrowed into Russian under the influence of numerous compounds that have entered Russian recently. The data used for analysis include loanwords with N+N structure (e.g., бизнесмен [businessman], арт-магазин [art shop]), a considerable proportion of which are units with loan abbreviations in the leftmost (modifying) position (e.g., пиар-директор [pi’ar direktor] ‘PR director’, ВИП-места [vip-mesta] ‘VIP seats’). The paper looks at the general principles of assimilation using Krysin’s (1975) framework to understand whether it is possible to talk about changes in the Russian morphology under the influence of lexical borrowing. The analysis of the Russian N+N data to date allows for two explanations for the growing productivity of the analytical pattern. One of these is the revival of the superficially similar Russian N+N morphological pattern which had fallen out of productivity. The othe...
Recalibrating Productivity: Factors Involved
Zeitschrift für Wortbildung / Journal of Word Formation
This paper approaches productivity by considering three case studies: compounds, blends and phras... more This paper approaches productivity by considering three case studies: compounds, blends and phrasal verbs. The aim of the paper is to encourage a discussion about the factors involved in the notion of productivity, and to show why so many of the established measures are not completely satisfactory or are interpreted in a way that is not.
Sergio Scalise & Irene Vogel (eds.), Cross-disciplinary issues in compounding . (=Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 311). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins, 2010. viii+382pp. ISBN 978-90-272-4827-5 (hardback), ISBN 978-90-272-9089-2 (e-book)
Word Structure, 2012
Some new insights into the semantics of English N+N compounds
E. Van Gelderen, ,An Introduction to the Grammar of English revised edition (2010) Benjamins,Amsterdam, Philadelphia p. xxi + 232, ISBN: 978-90-272-3270-0 (hardback), ISBN 978-90-272-1168-2 (paperback), ISBN 978-90-272-8862-2 (e-book)
This paper considers the meaning relationships holding between the elements of endocentric nomina... more This paper considers the meaning relationships holding between the elements of endocentric nominal compounds in English, and argues that the same relationships are found in a number of different constructions in which a noun is modified by another noun. That being the case, the relationships are not specific to compounding, and must arise from the nature of the modification. It may thus be that the relationships could be captured by a single relationship which is suitably underspecified. Evidence against such a position is also considered, and a solution is proposed which allows the benefits of both a single relationship and multiple relationships to be captured.
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