Douglas Lightfoot
Biographic Data
| ID | 3766827 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas Lightfoot |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas |
| FAMILY NAME | Lightfoot |
| SIGNATURE | LIGHTFOOT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Germanic affixoids in Jacob Grimm
Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) is one of the best-known German linguists of the early nineteenth-century. His influential volume, Deutsche Grammatik (1826, part two), deals with German word-formation. That work comments on the development of derivational affixes from former words, and thus contributes to affixoid studies. Much current work on affixoids utilizes Stevens' (2005) criteria to determine whether an affixoid is on hand, and this paper thus use…
Testing the suffixoidization of German -mann '-man'
Throughout its history in Old High German (OHG), Middle High German, Early New High German, and Modern German (ModG), the word Mann "man" has exhibited a high degree of productivity and linguistic flexibility. It has ranged morphosyntactically from a full noun (OHG man "man"), compounded noun (OHG werolt.man "human, mortal"), affixoid (ModG Sports.mann "athlete"), indefinite pronoun (ModG man "one"), to something approaching zero (undergoing demo…
Can the lexicalization/grammaticalization distinction be reconciled
Recent work on the relationship between lexicalization and grammaticalization appears to yield a consensus compatible with traditional notions of gestalt linguistics. A survey of the literature indicates the complexity of this supposed dichotomy, and provides a starting point from which we may evaluate a diagrammatic approach to the problem. Examples focus on the German derivational suffix -heit , cognate with English -hood . Such suffixation has…
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Can the lexicalization/grammaticalization distinction be reconciled
Recent work on the relationship between lexicalization and grammaticalization appears to yield a consensus compatible with traditional notions of gestalt linguistics. A survey of the literature indicates the complexity of this supposed dichotomy, and provides a starting point from which we may evaluate a diagrammatic approach to the problem. Examples focus on the German derivational suffix -heit , cognate with English -hood . Such suffixation has…
Testing the suffixoidization of German -mann '-man'
Throughout its history in Old High German (OHG), Middle High German, Early New High German, and Modern German (ModG), the word Mann "man" has exhibited a high degree of productivity and linguistic flexibility. It has ranged morphosyntactically from a full noun (OHG man "man"), compounded noun (OHG werolt.man "human, mortal"), affixoid (ModG Sports.mann "athlete"), indefinite pronoun (ModG man "one"), to something approaching zero (undergoing demo…
Germanic affixoids in Jacob Grimm
Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) is one of the best-known German linguists of the early nineteenth-century. His influential volume, Deutsche Grammatik (1826, part two), deals with German word-formation. That work comments on the development of derivational affixes from former words, and thus contributes to affixoid studies. Much current work on affixoids utilizes Stevens' (2005) criteria to determine whether an affixoid is on hand, and this paper thus use…
Lexicography and Language Studies (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Art (2 works) · German (2 works) · Linguistic research and analysis (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Diagrammatic reasoning (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works) · Focus (optics) (1 works)