The Semantics of Derivational Morphology

ABSTRACT readings ACTION ACTION action nouns ACTION reading additional readings age and ery age neologisms AMOUNT analysis approach attested Baayen British National Corpus CHARGE reading coinages COLLECTIVE 100 COLLECTIVE reading complex words CONCRETE category CONCRETE readings connecting lines contains core reading core sense denote persons derivatives of age derivatives refer dictionary different readings DITION ery derivatives ery neologisms example Figure gisms give rise hapax legomena Haspelmath high number hybrid formations interpretation investigation language lexemes lexical lexical semantics Lieber LOCA LOCATION ACTION meaning mental lexicon Middle English monosemous morpheme morpheme-based morphological category n1 OE neologisms PDE number of derivatives ontological category overlaps PDE neologisms person nouns polyse polysemous derivatives productive reading reading groups readings of age readings of ery ROM GER ROM ROM ROM ROM semantic maps semantic structure sense extension similar small number suffix synonymy TENURE TION tives token frequency transparent type frequency verbs word formation process