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Derywacja semantyczna, czyli o słowotwórstwie inaczej
Semantic Derivation. A New Approach to Word Formation

Author(s): Zuzana Topolińska
Subject(s): Morphology, Lexis, Semantics
Published by: Wydział Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: semantic constant of the stem; semantic derivation; lexeme; word;

Summary/Abstract: The author defends the thesis that the semantics of the root defines its ability to accept specified word-formational affixes and ipso facto is of decisive importance for the grammatical functions of the (semantic and formal) derivatives of that root. Semantic derivation is understood as a transfer of the basic semantic component of the root to all its derivatives.

  • Issue Year: 75/2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 313-317
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Polish