Word-formation in English
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TextSeries: Cambridge textbooks in linguisticsPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018. ©2018Edition: Second editionDescription: xv, 245 pages : illustrationsISBN: 9781107172098 (hardcover); 9781316623299 (softcover)Subject(s): English languageDDC classification: 425 | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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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.
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.
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