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dc.contributor.advisorGarcía Castillero, Carlos ORCID
dc.contributor.authorAsensio Garciandia, Amaia
dc.contributor.otherF. LETRAS
dc.contributor.otherLETREN F.
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-20T17:02:00Z
dc.date.available2020-05-20T17:02:00Z
dc.date.issued2020-05-20
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10810/43315
dc.description32 p. : il. -- Bibliogr.: p. 30
dc.description.abstractBack-formation and compounding constitute two morphological processes of word-formation that, on the one hand, can coalesce, and on the other hand, can collide. The central aim of this paper is to explain back-formation as belonging to the set of word-formation processes existing in the English language. Likewise, the paper also aims to approach compounding from three different perspectives: as being problematic towards the notion of wordhood, as the morphological process it constitutes, and as a process which is highly present within back-formation. For that purpose, the structure of the paper attempts to reproduce the order in which back-formation takes place as a morphological process, i.e. backwards. Indeed, the concept of ‘word’ is firstly presented in order to establish a problematic notion also addressed in relation to compounding later in the paper. Secondly, inflection and derivation are defined in order to locate word-formation processes and compounding within derivation. Finally, I discuss whether back-formation constitutes a word-formation process on its own or not. The conclusions drawn show how the notion of wordhood needs to be explained from a holistic perspective —i.e. from the different sub-branches of grammar— in order to get defined in a non-problematic manner. Nonetheless, examples of Compounding have brought counter-evidence to more than one of those definitions. In fact, compounding being a highly productive morphological process, it has also been proven to be a problematic notion in the literature in terms of structure, stress pattern, etc. Moreover, back-formation has been backed up with evidence as being a word-formation process on its own, instead of, as some scholars have asserted, being a mix of other word-formation processes. In addition, there is a huge amount of back-formed compound words in English; but compounding and back-formation directly differ on the fact that while compounding is the result of summing lexemes, backformation is the result of removing affixes.es_ES
dc.language.isoenges_ES
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subjectmorphologyes_ES
dc.subjectderivation
dc.subjectword-formation
dc.subjectback-formation
dc.subjectcompounding
dc.subjectwords
dc.titleBack-formed compound wordses_ES
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis
dc.date.updated2019-06-06T11:13:58Z
dc.language.rfc3066es
dc.rights.holder© 2019, la autora
dc.contributor.degreeGrado en Estudios Ingleseses_ES
dc.contributor.degreeIngeles Ikasketetako Gradua
dc.identifier.gaurregister95988-657776-09
dc.identifier.gaurassign84772-657776


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