Detail In Search of Evidence for Metonymically Motivated Innovative Nouns in Children’s Speech   Oleh:  Konieczna, Ewa ; Kleparski, Grzegorz A. Jenis: Article from Journal Dalam koleksi: SKASE: Journal of Theoretical Linguistics vol. 2 no. 3 (Mar. 2005), page 43-56. Fulltext: 04.pdf (223.39KB) Isi artikel The aim of this paper is to present a wide spectrum of motivational factors involved in the formation of innovative nouns by Polish and English-speaking children. The paper examines both language dependent motivational factors, i.e. relationship between target and source (Radden and Panther 2004) and language independent motivational factors, such as an ecological niche, economy and perceptual salience. Consequently, it is argued that all the novel nouns are metonymically motivated irrespective of the language used, and the derivational mechanism relied on (be it deverbal nominalization or compounding). In order to show the key role of motivation in the process of innovative nouns formation the Idealised Cognitive Model proposed by Lakoff (1987) has been adopted Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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