Word-formation in English (Record no. 44790)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9781107172098 (hardcover)
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9781316623299 (softcover)
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 425
Item number PLA
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Plag, Ingo
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Word-formation in English
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement Second edition.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication Cambridge :
Name of publisher Cambridge University Press,
Year of publication 2018. ©2018
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages xv, 245 pages :
Other physical details illustrations ;
490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Cambridge textbooks in linguistics
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Machine generated contents note: 1.Basic Concepts --<br/>1.1.What Is a Word? --<br/>1.2.Studying Word-Formation --<br/>1.3.Inflection and Derivation --<br/>1.4.Summary --<br/>2.Studying Complex Words --<br/>2.1.Identifying Morphemes --<br/>2.1.1.The Morpheme as the Minimal Linguistic Sign --<br/>2.1.2.Problems with the Morpheme: The Mapping of Form and Meaning --<br/>2.2.Allomorphy --<br/>2.3.Establishing Word-Formation Rules --<br/>2.4.Multiple Affixation and Compounding --<br/>2.5.Summary --<br/>3.Productivity and the Mental Lexicon --<br/>3.1.Introduction: What Is Productivity? --<br/>3.2.Possible and Actual Words --<br/>3.3.Complex Words in the Lexicon --<br/>3.4.Measuring Productivity --<br/>3.5.Constraining Productivity --<br/>3.5.1.Pragmatic Restrictions --<br/>3.5.2.Structural Restrictions --<br/>3.5.3.Blocking --<br/>3.6.Summary --<br/>4.Affixation --<br/>4.1.What Is an Affix? --<br/>4.2.How to Investigate Affixes: More on Methodology --<br/>4.3.General Properties of English Affixation --<br/>4.3.1.Phonological Properties --<br/>4.3.2.Morphological Properties Note continued: 4.3.3.Semantic Properties --<br/>4.3.4.Classifying Affixes --<br/>4.4.Suffixes --<br/>4.4.1.Nominal Suffixes --<br/>4.4.2.Verbal Suffixes --<br/>4.4.3.Adjectival Suffixes --<br/>4.4.4.Adverbial Suffixes --<br/>4.5.Prefixes --<br/>4.6.Infixation --<br/>4.7.Summary --<br/>5.Derivation without Affixation --<br/>5.1.Conversion --<br/>5.1.1.The Directionality of Conversion --<br/>5.1.2.Conversion or Zero-Affixation? --<br/>5.1.3.Conversion: Syntactic or Morphological? --<br/>5.2.Prosodic Morphology --<br/>5.2.1.Truncations: Truncated Names, -Y Diminutives, and Clippings --<br/>5.2.2.Blends --<br/>5.3.Abbreviations and Acronyms --<br/>5.4.Summary --<br/>6.Compounding --<br/>6.1.Recognizing Compounds --<br/>6.1.1.What Are Compounds Made Of? --<br/>6.1.2.More on the Structure of Compounds: The Notion of Head --<br/>6.1.3.Canonical and Non-Canonical Compounds --<br/>6.1.4.Summary --<br/>6.2.An Inventory of Compounding Patterns --<br/>6.3.Nominal Compounds --<br/>6.3.1.Headedness --<br/>6.3.2.Interpreting Nominal Compounds --<br/>6.3.3.Stress Assignment Note continued: 6.4.Adjectival Compounds --<br/>6.5.Verbal Compounds --<br/>6.6.Neoclassical Compounds --<br/>6.7.Compounding: Syntax or Morphology? --<br/>6.8.Summary --<br/>7.Theoretical Issues: Modeling Word-Formation --<br/>7.1.Introduction: Why Theory? --<br/>7.2.Phonology-Morphology Interaction --<br/>7.3.Affix Ordering --<br/>7.4.The Nature of Word-Formation Rules --<br/>7.4.1.Morpheme-Based Morphology --<br/>7.4.2.Word-Based Morphology --<br/>7.4.3.Analogy --<br/>7.4.4.Naive Discriminative Learning --<br/>7.5.Summary.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc This textbook is directed towards university students of English and linguistics at all levels. It can also serve as a source book for teachers and advanced students, and as an up-to-date reference concerning many word-formation processes of English and state-of the-art methodologies.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term English language
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type Reference Books
Holdings
Collection code Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Source of acquisition Cost, normal purchase price Full call number Accession Number Koha item type
Reference Main Library Main Library Reference 12/03/2020 Purchase 6367.88 425 PLA 016013 Reference Books

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