<Articles>A Study of Neologisms in Shakespeare's Comedies and Tragedies
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I have studied Shakespeare's neologisms in four plays, Love's Labour's Lost, Merry Wives of Windsor, Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet. The followings are results of this study. I. Word formation 1. Compounding I have found 162 compounds in the four plays, of which Type I, Determinans +Determinatum, is the most frequent of the three types studied, accounting for about 76% of such compounds. Within Type I there are 9 subclasses. The relation attribute +headword is the most prevalent and amounts to 37% of Type I. 2. Functional conversion I have found eight kinds of functional conversion in the four plays : (1)n. → v. (2)v. → n. (3)adj. → n. (4)adj. → v. (5)v. → a. (6)adj. → adv. (7)adv. → prep. (9)v. → int. The most frequent type is a verbalization-verb formed from nouns, and this amounts to 36% of the total number. They add immediacy and they provide a striking quality to the language. 3. Derivation By far the most frequent prefix is 'un-.' The most common suffix is '-ed, ' followed by '-ing, ' '-ment' and '-ly.' We can infer that the characteristic way of creating neologisms in comedies is compound, while in tragedies it is by derivation. II. Word area The word area 'love' and 'color' are found in the two comedies. 'Death, ' 'sickness, ' 'night, ' 'marriage' and 'desire' are found in the two tragedies. Many words making up word areas in each play are closely related to the theme of the play and very expressively and concisely enhance the theme of the play. They are also connected with the central images which run throughout each of the plays.
- 2002-03-31
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