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The semantic structure of nominal compounds in modern Hebrew
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
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The term ‘derivation’ denotes a process of linguistic creativity. It does not involve creating something out of nothing, rather of availing oneself of material already existing in the language in order to create new lexemes (i.e. new ‘lexical words’). Clearly, the lexicon is not enriched through derivation only; generally speaking, derivation is not involved when a word is borrowed from outside, i.e. from another language. The borrowed word enters the Hebrew lexicon as a moneme, so there is no creativity (or very little of it) involved in the borrowing process.
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- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 43 , Issue 2 , June 1980 , pp. 185 - 196
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