Chronicling the times: Productive lexical innovations in an English newspaper
Chronicling the times: Productive lexical innovations in an English newspaper
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DOI：
10.2307/416794
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发表时间：
1996-03-01
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影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Renouf, A
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作者：
Baayen, RH;Renouf, A
本研究考察了1989年9月至1992年12月英国《泰晤士报》（伦敦）中五个英语派生词缀的产出率。这个历时的语料库大约有8000万个单词，包含了大量的新词。因此，这个语料库提供了一个很好的机会来测试形态生产力的定性和定量理论。我们的调查支持Baayen（1992，1993）a中提出的生产率下降概念的定量形式化的有用性。同时，它们说明了生产率是文本类型和真实的时间的函数。对新词形态结构的研究有力地支持了Aronoff（1976）的观点，即词缀的产出性可能随其所依附的基词的形态结构而显著变化。
This study examines the productivity of five English derivational affixes in a British newspaper, the Times (London), in the period from September 1989 to December 1992. This diachronic corpus of roughly 80 million word tokens contains large numbers of neologisms. Thus, this corpus offers a good opportunity to test both qualitative and quantitative theories of morphological productivity. Our investigations support the usefulness of the quantitative formalization of the notion DECREE OF PRODUCTIVITY developed in Baayen 1992, 1993a. At the same time, they illustrate that productivity is a function of both text type and real time. An investigation of the morphological structure of the neologisms provides strong support for Aronoff's (1976) claim that the productivity of an affix may vary significantly with the morphological structure of the base word to which it attaches.*