Projekt edukacyjny „Motywacja polskich i niemieckich wyrazów wielomorfemowych o identycznej referencji” na Uniwersytecie Wrocławskim
Educational project „Motivation of the Polish and German referential identical word formations” at the University of Wrocław

Author(s): Janusz Stopyra
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: word formation; comparative word formation; word formation structures; motivation; naming motive
Summary/Abstract: The project, in its theoretical part based on the phenomenon of morphosemantic motivation in the classical sense (cf. Käge 1980), included an analysis of Polish and German word-formations. On this basis, following a new version of research that uses the concept of naming motive (e.g. Feine 1998; 1999), a model was constructed for a contrastive analysis of polymorphemic words in Polish and German in terms of motivational similarities and differences. The five naming motives in the model were used in order not only to recognize the proper motivation of a new word formation, but also to compare the motivation of referential identical word formations of Polish and German. Most of the Polish-German word pairs that were studied have, as it turned out, analogous motivation (about 94%), but the main goal of the project was to arrange German exercises for Poles based on motivational differences. Some examples of exercises arranged by students taking specialized classes at the University of Wroclaw are included in the final section of the article.

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