October 11, 2017

INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS - WORD FORMATION IN ENGLISH


INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS - WORD FORMATION IN ENGLISH 

We can summarize this module in the words of Alexander Onysko and Sascha Michel - "[R]ecent voices stressing the importance of investigating word formation in the light of cognitive processes can be interpreted from two general perspectives. First of all, they indicate that a structural approach to the architecture of words and a cognitive view are not incompatible. On the contrary, both perspectives try to work out regularities in language. What sets them apart is the basic vision of how language is encapsulated in the mind and the ensuing choice of terminology in the description of the processes.. . [C]ognitive linguistics concedes closely to the self-organizing nature of humans and their language, whereas generative-structuralist perspectives represent external boundaries as given in the institutionalized order of human interaction."




INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS - WORD FORMATION IN ENGLISH