TY - BOOK AU - Plag,Ingo TI - Word-formation in English T2 - Cambridge textbooks in linguistics SN - 9781107172098 (hardcover) U1 - 425 PY - 2018///. ©2018 CY - Cambridge : PB - Cambridge University Press, KW - English language N1 - Machine generated contents note: 1.Basic Concepts -- 1.1.What Is a Word? -- 1.2.Studying Word-Formation -- 1.3.Inflection and Derivation -- 1.4.Summary -- 2.Studying Complex Words -- 2.1.Identifying Morphemes -- 2.1.1.The Morpheme as the Minimal Linguistic Sign -- 2.1.2.Problems with the Morpheme: The Mapping of Form and Meaning -- 2.2.Allomorphy -- 2.3.Establishing Word-Formation Rules -- 2.4.Multiple Affixation and Compounding -- 2.5.Summary -- 3.Productivity and the Mental Lexicon -- 3.1.Introduction: What Is Productivity? -- 3.2.Possible and Actual Words -- 3.3.Complex Words in the Lexicon -- 3.4.Measuring Productivity -- 3.5.Constraining Productivity -- 3.5.1.Pragmatic Restrictions -- 3.5.2.Structural Restrictions -- 3.5.3.Blocking -- 3.6.Summary -- 4.Affixation -- 4.1.What Is an Affix? -- 4.2.How to Investigate Affixes: More on Methodology -- 4.3.General Properties of English Affixation -- 4.3.1.Phonological Properties -- 4.3.2.Morphological Properties Note continued: 4.3.3.Semantic Properties -- 4.3.4.Classifying Affixes -- 4.4.Suffixes -- 4.4.1.Nominal Suffixes -- 4.4.2.Verbal Suffixes -- 4.4.3.Adjectival Suffixes -- 4.4.4.Adverbial Suffixes -- 4.5.Prefixes -- 4.6.Infixation -- 4.7.Summary -- 5.Derivation without Affixation -- 5.1.Conversion -- 5.1.1.The Directionality of Conversion -- 5.1.2.Conversion or Zero-Affixation? -- 5.1.3.Conversion: Syntactic or Morphological? -- 5.2.Prosodic Morphology -- 5.2.1.Truncations: Truncated Names, -Y Diminutives, and Clippings -- 5.2.2.Blends -- 5.3.Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 5.4.Summary -- 6.Compounding -- 6.1.Recognizing Compounds -- 6.1.1.What Are Compounds Made Of? -- 6.1.2.More on the Structure of Compounds: The Notion of Head -- 6.1.3.Canonical and Non-Canonical Compounds -- 6.1.4.Summary -- 6.2.An Inventory of Compounding Patterns -- 6.3.Nominal Compounds -- 6.3.1.Headedness -- 6.3.2.Interpreting Nominal Compounds -- 6.3.3.Stress Assignment Note continued: 6.4.Adjectival Compounds -- 6.5.Verbal Compounds -- 6.6.Neoclassical Compounds -- 6.7.Compounding: Syntax or Morphology? -- 6.8.Summary -- 7.Theoretical Issues: Modeling Word-Formation -- 7.1.Introduction: Why Theory? -- 7.2.Phonology-Morphology Interaction -- 7.3.Affix Ordering -- 7.4.The Nature of Word-Formation Rules -- 7.4.1.Morpheme-Based Morphology -- 7.4.2.Word-Based Morphology -- 7.4.3.Analogy -- 7.4.4.Naive Discriminative Learning -- 7.5.Summary N2 - 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 ER -