Contrastive word-formation today: Retrospect and prospect
(2011) Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics — Vol. 47, n° 4, p. 645-682 (2011)
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- This paper proposes an exploratory bird’s-eye view of contrastive word-formation research, an area which, to date, remains largely under-researched in the three fields in which it partakes, namely morphology, contrastive linguistics and lexicology. Studies in contrastive word-formation, as well as their meta-analysis in terms of scope, objectives and data, are presented in a critical survey of the literature, together with an extensive bibliography (1960–2010). A new contrastive methodology for future research is looked into and the major practical applications of contrastive word-formation in bilingual lexicography and translator training, among others, are overviewed. Contrastive word-formation, it is argued, should be set within a more rigorous theoretical and methodological framework, which would be characterised by a dynamic conception of the tertium comparationis and the use of empirical data drawn from multilingual corpora.
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Lefer, M.-A. (2011). Contrastive word-formation today: Retrospect and prospect. Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, 47(4), 645-682. https://doi.org/10.2478/psicl-2011-0034 (Original work published 2011)