Compounding in Namagowab and English: (exploring meaning creation in compounds)

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dc.contributor.advisorBowerman, Sean Alanen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorCaroline, Klopperten_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-25T11:27:40Z
dc.date.available2016-07-25T11:27:40Z
dc.date.issued2016en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis essay investigates compounding in Namagowab and English, which belong to two widely divergent groups of languages, the Khoesan and Indo-European, respectively. The first motive is to investigate how and why new words are created from existing ones. The reading and data interpretation seeks an understanding of word formation and an overview of semantic compositionality, structure and productivity, within the broad context of cognitive, lexicalist and distributed morphology paradigms. This coupled with history reading about the languages and its people, is used to speculate about why compounds feature in lexical creation. Compounding is prevalent in both languages and their distance in terms of phylogenetic relationships should allow limited generalizing about these processes of formation. Word lists taken from dictionaries in both languages were analyzed by entering the words in Excel spreadsheets so that various attributes of these words, such as word type, compound class (Noun, Verb, Preposition, Adjective and Adverb) and constituent class could be counted, and described with formulae, and compound and constituent meaning analyzed. The conclusion was that socio historical factors such as language contact, and aspects of cognition such as memory and transparency, account for compounding in a language in addition to typology.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationCaroline, K. (2016). <i>Compounding in Namagowab and English: (exploring meaning creation in compounds)</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Linguistics. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20685en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationCaroline, Kloppert. <i>"Compounding in Namagowab and English: (exploring meaning creation in compounds)."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Linguistics, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20685en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationCaroline, K. 2016. Compounding in Namagowab and English: (exploring meaning creation in compounds). University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Caroline, Kloppert AB - This essay investigates compounding in Namagowab and English, which belong to two widely divergent groups of languages, the Khoesan and Indo-European, respectively. The first motive is to investigate how and why new words are created from existing ones. The reading and data interpretation seeks an understanding of word formation and an overview of semantic compositionality, structure and productivity, within the broad context of cognitive, lexicalist and distributed morphology paradigms. This coupled with history reading about the languages and its people, is used to speculate about why compounds feature in lexical creation. Compounding is prevalent in both languages and their distance in terms of phylogenetic relationships should allow limited generalizing about these processes of formation. Word lists taken from dictionaries in both languages were analyzed by entering the words in Excel spreadsheets so that various attributes of these words, such as word type, compound class (Noun, Verb, Preposition, Adjective and Adverb) and constituent class could be counted, and described with formulae, and compound and constituent meaning analyzed. The conclusion was that socio historical factors such as language contact, and aspects of cognition such as memory and transparency, account for compounding in a language in addition to typology. DA - 2016 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2016 T1 - Compounding in Namagowab and English: (exploring meaning creation in compounds) TI - Compounding in Namagowab and English: (exploring meaning creation in compounds) UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20685 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/20685
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationCaroline K. Compounding in Namagowab and English: (exploring meaning creation in compounds). [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Linguistics, 2016 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20685en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentLinguisticsen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherLinguisticsen_ZA
dc.titleCompounding in Namagowab and English: (exploring meaning creation in compounds)en_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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