Rekishi Teki Ni Mita Eigo No Katari Keisei (Kaitaku Sha Gengo Bunka Sensho)

[Machine Translation] This book is an attempt to examine English word formation from a historical perspective. First, the characteristics of compound words from Old English to early Modern English are reviewed. This is followed by a discussion of the relationship between footings and derivatives in Middle English, semantic features of noun-converting verbs, the choice between derivatives and simple words, morphological and semantic differences in adjective-deriving suffixes, morphological, syntactic, and semantic features of compound words in Early Modern English, and finally, the grammaticalization of the three suffixes.

本書は歴史的視点から英語の語形成を考察した試みである。まず、古英語から初期近代英語までの複合語の特徴を概観する。これに続いて、中英語における脚韻と派生語の関係、名詞転換動詞の意味特徴、派生語と単純語の選択、形容詞を派生する接尾辞の形態的・意味的相違、初期近代英語における複合語の形態的・統語的・意味的特徴を述べ、最後に三つの接尾辞の文法化に言及する。