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15 - The Role of Word-Formation Families and Subfamilies in the Organization of German Diminutive Compounds
from Part III - Corpus-Based Case Studies
- By Wolfgang U. Dressler, Sonja Schwaiger, Jutta Ransmayr
Edited by Lívia Körtvélyessy, Pavol Štekauer
Book:

Complex Words

Published online:

18 September 2020

Print publication:

08 October 2020, pp 293-310
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Summary

Not only formal word families are important for the organization of the morphologically complex lexicon, but also their semantic (or rather conceptual) subfamilies. This is shown with eighteen Austrian German diminutive compound families with the diminutive suffix -chen, and for their correspondent formal word families with the diminutive suffix -erl. For all of them, their competition (leading to mutual avoidances and semantic specializations), degree of morphosemantic transparency/opacity, productivity and left- vs. right-branching are accounted for. Our electronic database consists of nearly 13,000 different diminutive types which have at least five tokens within the Austrian Media Corpus.