Productivity (language)
Under Productivity is understood in linguistics ( Linguistics ) (at least) two different phenomena:
- an aspect of language proficiency;
- the ability of a word formation pattern to form new words.
Productivity as an aspect of language proficiency
As an aspect of language competence, the productivity of language is described on the one hand as the "ability to understand any number of sentences that are completely new to us" and on the other as the "phenomenon that we construct an infinite number of sentences from a finite number of words can, including many sentences that we have never seen or heard before ".
On the linguistic side, compositionality (i.e. the composition of the meaning of a linguistic expression as a function of the meaning of the individual parts of the expression) is cited as an important prerequisite for productivity .
Productivity as a property of word formation patterns
In another sense, productivity is understood to mean the "property of a word formation pattern to produce (on a larger scale) new formations".
For details see: Word formation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen Pafel, Ingo Reich: Introduction to Semantics. Basics - Analysis - Trends. Metzler, Stuttgart 2016 (textbook), ISBN 978-3-476-02455-8 , p. 15 f .; see. also Kreidler, Charles W .: Introducing English Semantics. - Routledge, London a. a. 1998 (Nachdr. 2002), p. 303: "The ability of humans to produce and understand constantly new utterances."
- ↑ Dagfinn Føllesdal; Lars Walløe; Jon Elster: Rational Argumentation. A basic course in the theory of reasoning and science. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York, 1988, p. 209
- ↑ Michael Schlaefer: lexicology and lexicography. - 2nd edition - E. Schmidt, Berlin 2009, p. 190