Alexander Onysko Livres

Cognitive linguistics has established itself as a significant research paradigm over the past three decades, yet it has largely overlooked the processes of lexical creation typically explored in word formation studies. This volume marks a pioneering effort to shed light on various aspects of word formation from cognitive perspectives. It features contributions from the 2nd International Cognitive Linguistics Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, along with selected invited papers from scholars focused on word formation and cognitive linguistics. The collection emphasizes methodological and topical pluralism. Some contributions delve into theoretical discussions, such as recombinance as a model of word formation and taxonomies of word formation processes. Other articles explore interface issues, including the relationships between word formation and phrasal constructions, inflection, and phonology. Most studies examine specific types of word formation—compounding, affixation, and conversion—enhancing our understanding of these processes. Primarily focusing on Germanic languages (Afrikaans, Dutch, English, German, Luxembourgish, and Norwegian), the analyses employ corpus linguistic investigations, psycholinguistic experiments, and computational linguistic applications, alongside introspective reasoning in some cases. Overall, this volume enriches the field of cognitive word formation research and highlights

The book offers a detailed account of English influence on German based on a large scale corpus analysis of the newsmagazine ‘Der Spiegel’. The study is structured into three parts covering fundamental questions and as of yet unsolved and disputed issues in the domain of anglicism research and language contact. Part 1 discusses the terminological uncertainty in the field, puts forward a model of the influence of English on German, and proposes a principled classification of the term anglicism. Part 2 portrays the numerical impact of anglicisms in an extensive corpus and draws general conclusions about the overall quantitative influence of English on German. Part 3 conclusively investigates the integration of anglicisms in German across the various lexical and syntactic paradigms. Particular focus is attributed to the salient morphological features of gender, plural, genitive case, and to verbal and adjectival inflection. Furthermore, word formational processes are substantively analyzed including compounding, derivation, and peripheral types of word formation. A functional classification of written codeswitching concludes part 3, and the book closes with a brief outlook on future challenges of anglicism research. In its breadth and detailed manner of analysis, the study sets the current standards of research in the field.

This volume, in honor of Allan James, collects a range of articles from different domains of English studies as a token of Allan James's academic interests and his integrative approach to the field. The contributions in linguistics encompass a spectrum of topics including world Englishes, professional discourse, language acquisition, collocation, translation, and multilingualism. Cultural aspects in language teaching and in literary analysis enrich the reading and hint at Allan James' Welsh and Celtic roots while also going beyond that.