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Gellius the Etymologist : Gellius' Etymologies and Modern

Etymology
Franco Cavazza

in The Worlds of Aulus Gellius

Published in print: 2004 Published Online:
Publisher: Oxford University Press
September 2007
DOI: 10.1093/
ISBN: 9780199264827 eISBN: 9780191718403 acprof:oso/9780199264827.003.0003
Item type: chapter

Gellius often discusses questions of etymology, sometimes following

other writers' work, sometimes apparently offering suggestions of
his own. This chapter employs source-criticism to isolate etymologies
that seem to be his own (while acknowledging the possibility that they
may not be), compares them with the findings of modern linguistics,
and relates them to the etymological principles current amongst
ancient grammarians, in particular borrowing from Greek, suffixation,
composition out of two words, or use by antiphrasis to mean the opposite
of the expected sense. He makes intelligent and informed use of these
principles, proving himself an expert in the ars grammatica. Most of
his derivations by suffixation or composition are correct, as are most
derivations from Greek if the category is extended to include the
common Indo-European descent of which antiquity had no notion.

Introduction
OLGA BORIK

in Aspect and Reference Time

Published in print: 2006 Published Online:
Publisher: Oxford University Press
January 2010
DOI: 10.1093/
ISBN: 9780199291298 eISBN: 9780191710711 acprof:oso/9780199291298.003.0001
Item type: chapter

This introductory chapter discusses aspectual morphology in Russian.

Aspectual differences become transparent due to morphological
processes such as prefixation and suffixation. However, there is no
uniform morphological aspectual marker. Aspectual morphology
in Russian is complex, though there are some similarities in the
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morphological design of perfective and imperfective forms respectively.

No generalization can be formed on the basis of morphology only,
because there are morphologically complex imperative verbs. It then
talks about the history of the Russian tense system.

Morphological complexity outside of universal grammar

Morphological complexity outside of universal grammar (1998)
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Jirka Hana and Peter W. Culicover

in Explaining Syntax: Representations, Structures, and Computation

Published in print: 2013 Published Online:
Publisher: Oxford University Press
January 2014
DOI: 10.1093/
ISBN: 9780199660230 eISBN: 9780191748240 acprof:oso/9780199660230.003.0013
Item type: chapter

This chapter focuses on morphosyntax, in particular the use of linear

order in inflected words to express correspondences between form
and meaning. It explores the possibility that different orderings among
the root and inflection in an inflected form may yield differences in
the complexity of the form-meaning correspondence. It argues that
the identification of inflectional morphology expressed as suffixation
is computationally less complex than prefixation, which in turn is
computationally less complex than infixation. These preferences account
for the greater frequency of suffixation over prefixation, and the greater
frequency of prefixation over infixation.

Degrees of lexicalization in Ancient Greek deverbal nouns

Germana Olga Civilleri

in The Semantics of Word Formation and Lexicalization

Published in print: 2013 Published Online: May Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
2014
DOI: 10.3366/
ISBN: 9780748689606 eISBN: 9780748695232 edinburgh/9780748689606.003.0011
Item type: chapter

Based on the Homeric corpus this paper analyses the process of

lexicalization in Ancient Greek deverbal nouns. The analysis shows that
the meaning of deverbal nouns can be lexicalized to different degrees
according to the same processes as those governing polysemy, i.e.
metaphor and metonymy. Deverbal nouns will be placed on a double
continuum, viz. from transparent to lexicalized meaning and from
verbal to nominal features. Indeed the higher deverbal nouns are in the
lexicalization scale the more they lose verbal features.

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