Russian word-formation in contrast with Czech and Norwegian
Although some scholarship on metonymy has mentioned examples of word-formation and some scholarship on word-formation has mentioned the presence of metonymy, to date there has been no attempt to examine the systematic role of metonymy in the domain of word-formation. This article presents an empiric...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Oslo
2010-12-01
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| Series: | Oslo Studies in Language |
| Online Access: | https://journals.uio.no/osla/article/view/72 |
| Summary: | Although some scholarship on metonymy has mentioned examples of word-formation and some scholarship on word-formation has mentioned the presence of metonymy, to date there has been no attempt to examine the systematic role of metonymy in the domain of word-formation. This article presents an empirical study of the metonymies signalled by derivational suffixes in Russian, Czech and Norwegian. This approach facilitates cross-linguistic comparison that reveals significant differences among languages, and these differences appear relevant to cultural differences. |
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| ISSN: | 1890-9639 |