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Phytonymic Derivational Systems in the Romance Languages: Studies in their Origin and Development

Phytonymic Derivational Systems in the Romance Languages: Studies in their Origin and Development

Geiger, Walter E.

Paperback

Series: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatu, Book 187

LinguisticsBotany & Horticulture

ISBN10: 0807891878
ISBN13: 9780807891872
Publisher: Univ Of North Carolina Pr
Published: Jan 1 1978
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This study, an admirable addition to the school of suffixal-derivation headed by Yakov Malkiel, explores the diachronic linguistic processes of the nomenclature used for plants from the flourishing of Classical Latin to contemporary Romance languages, with a special focus on Hispano-Romance.

Walter Geiger's exhaustively researched volume takes a diverse phytonymic lexicon (including trees, fruits, vegetables, flowers, grasses, grains, and plant parts) from its process of derivation in Latin through the nominalization of adjectival systems and semantic classifications to demonstrate the trends of retention, functional diversification, and extinction of derivational patterns through language development.

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