Motivations of Lexical Transformations
(on the Example of the Basic Lexeme пройти) Cover Image

Мотивации лексических трансформаций (на материале исходной лексемы пройти)
Motivations of Lexical Transformations (on the Example of the Basic Lexeme пройти)

Author(s): Martyna Król
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Lexis
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: semantics; lexical transformations; homonymy; homonimoidality; derivation

Summary/Abstract: The paper is aimed at the problem of transformational word-formation meant asa dynamic process of formation of new expressions on the basis of linguistic modelsusing entire forms of already existing expressions, which become motivated expressionsthat way. This problem was taken into consideration from this viewpoint often defined inlinguistics as polysemy. One lexical unit was analyzed on the basis of many core glossariesand a homonym dictionary, and three was an attempt to falsify the theory of polysemy andsubstitute it with the theory of homonimoidality seen as a phenomenon of formal similarity ofexpressions having different semantic features and retained derivational features (one of theexpressions is a motivational one, another – motivated). The paper also presents a detaileddescription with a scheme of motivation of such lexical transformations of the entity, whichis determined by a greater semantic elasticity. In the glossaries, the number of meanings forthe lexical unit oscillated at 15–17 meanings but their definitions were different. The changein basic theory allowed both to distract and to order the semantic structure of homonimoidsпройти.

  • Issue Year: 2/2012
  • Issue No: XIV
  • Page Range: 59-68
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Russian