摘要
本文基于美国历史英语语料库、当代美国英语语料库、在线新闻语料库分析典型新构词词素的生成和演变。研究发现-licious、-tastic、-mageddon、-geddon、-pocalypse等源于现有英语词语的构词成分在形式上已定型为尾部构词词素。这些构词词素全部或部分沿袭源词的词义,同时出现语义扩大或缩小的情况,并倾向于与指称事物的前搭配词进行复合构词。在不同衡量标准下,两组构词词素的能产性高低有所差别。新构词词素的形成涉及构式变化和构式化。两组新构词词素的构式化在图式性、能产性和组构性上有所不同,但呈现出图式性和能产性增强以及组构性总体增强、部分减弱的特点。
This paper analyzes the generation and evolution of some typical new combining forms based on corpora such as the Corpus of Historical American English, the Corpus of Contemporary American English, and News on the Web. It is found that the word-formational elements such as-licious,-tastic,-mageddon,-geddon, and-pocalypse that were derived from existing English words have become final combining forms. The said combining forms fully or partly inherit their meanings from their source words, and there also exist semantic broadening and narrowing. The combining forms tend to make new compounds with preceding elements that denote things. The productivity of the two group of combining forms differs according to different measures. The formation of new combining forms involves constructional changes and constructionalization. The constructionalization of the two groups of new combining forms is somewhat different as regards schematicity, productivity, and compositionality, showing the characteristics of increase in schematicity and productivity as well as overall increase and partial decrease in compositionality.
作者
高永伟
黄锦鸿
Gao Yongwei;Huang Jinhong
出处
《西安外国语大学学报》
CSSCI
北大核心
2023年第1期1-8,共8页
Journal of Xi’an International Studies University
关键词
构词词素
语料库
形成
构式变化
构式化
combining form
corpus
formation
constructional change
constructionalization
