Analysis of the role and use of prefixes in word formation in modern german compared to english
Keywords:
typology, prefixes, verbalisation, word formation, word patterns.
Abstract
The aim of the paper is to formulate and summarise the research on word formation in German in comparison with English. The literature review made it possible to conduct a typological analysis of word formation rules in German and English to classify the scope of current research in this area. The results showed that the paradigm shift of recent years has led to increased attention to issues related to language use and empirical issues, theories, and methods of word formation not only from a synchronic perspective but also from a diachronic one. The fact that words are formed distinguishes them from a competing process, phrase formation, in which phrases, i.e., groups of words, form collocations rather than words, i.e., groups of words to verbalise concepts. Since a phrase verbalises a concept in the same way as a word, these two methods compete both at the intra- and inter-linguistic levels. We conclude that it is the potential of word formation that distinguishes modern language from primitive language. The comparative compilation of German and English word formation models has led us to the typology of language.
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Schweikhard, N. E., & List, J. M. (2020). Handling word formation in comparative linguistics. SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, 17(1), 2-26. https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0006-8BB5-1
Simbikangwa, M. (2022). German and Kinyarwanda - a typological comparison on a phonological, morphological and syntactic level. (Doctoral dissertation), University of Cologne. https://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/63596/
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Stewart, J., Brown, D., Bennett, P., Robles-García, P., Sánchez-Gutiérrez, C. H., Miguel, N. M., & McLean, S. (2023). The contribution of affixes to productive English vocabulary knowledge for Chinese, German and Spanish learners: A comparison. System, 115, 103035. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2023.103035
Twardzisz, P. (2023). English Complex Words: Exercises in construction and translation. John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/z.242
Van Goethem, K., Norde, M., & Masini, F. (2023). The fate of ‘pseudo-’words: A contrastive corpus-based analysis. Languages in Contrast. https://doi.org/10.1075/lic.22003.van
Zavalniuk, I., Kholod, I., Bohatko, V., & Pavlyuk, O. (2022). Lexical-syntactical repetition in the system of stylistic figures: status, specification, functions. Ad Alta-Journal of Interdisciplinary Research, 12(1), 268–274. http://socrates.vsau.org/repository/getfile.php/30865.pdf
Zekun, W. U., & Yuan, L. İ. (2022). The use of connectors among Chinese German as a foreign language learners. A corpus linguistic study of argumentative learner texts. Studies on German language and literature, (48), 11-140. https://doi.org/10.26650/sdsl2022-1166401
Zhuravlyova, D. (2023). Using prefixes in English word formation. In Innovative trends in training specialists in a multicultural and multilingual globalised world. Kyiv National University of Technology and Design. https://acortar.link/0E6W1s
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2023-11-30
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Maharramova, M. (2023). Analysis of the role and use of prefixes in word formation in modern german compared to english. Amazonia Investiga, 12(71), 233-241. https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2023.71.11.20
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