Measuring Productivity in Word Formation: The Case of Israeli Hebrew

by Shmuel Bolozky

Morphological productivity is the likelihood of a morphological pattern being used or comprehended in new word formation. Three methods of measuring productivity of word formation are proposed productivity tests (open-ended and judgment tasks), dictionary comparison (newer with older dictionaries, supplements with earlier versions), and the ratio of hapax legomena to tokens in corpora. Processes which score highly by all three criteria can...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004112529
• ISBN13: 9789004112520
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 9.6"