The Question of Motivation in Nest-Oriented Description of Dialectal Word Formation (Using the Example of the Orava Dialect) Cover Image

Zagadnienie motywacji w gniazdowym opisie słowotwórstwa gwarowego (na przykładzie gwary orawskiej)
The Question of Motivation in Nest-Oriented Description of Dialectal Word Formation (Using the Example of the Orava Dialect)

Author(s): Tomasz Kurdyła
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Lexis
Published by: KSIĘGARNIA AKADEMICKA Sp. z o.o.
Keywords: word formation;dialectal word formation;word formation nests;motivation in word formation

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses word formation’s most important notion, i.e. the motivation, in respect to nestoriented descriptions. The first part presents the difficulties which arise in the traditional, as well as in the nest-oriented description of word formation of general Polish (mutual motivation, multiple motivations, indirect and direct motivation, base and accompanying motivation, equivalent motivation). In the second part, these problems of motivation, resulting from the specificity of dialectal material, are being discussed. This part also formulates methodological suggestions about the creation of certain nests which are more difficult to analyse. The final part tackles the question of mutual dependence between the model of word formation, and the speaker’s word formation intuition (awareness, competence).

  • Issue Year: 15/2020
  • Issue No: 30
  • Page Range: 107-119
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish