{"product_id":"word-formation-in-english-hardback-9781107172098","title":"Word-Formation in English (Hardback) 9781107172098","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWord-Formation in English\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe book enables students with little prior knowledge of linguistics to engage in their own analyses of complex words.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eIngo Plag (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107172098, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 July 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e258 pages, 39 b\/w illus.  36 tables\u003cbr\u003e25.3 x 17.8 x 1.6 cm, 0.66 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book is the second edition of a highly successful introduction to the study of word-formation, that is, the ways in which new words are built on the bases of other words (e.g. happy - happy-ness), focusing on English. The book's didactic aim is to enable students with little or no prior linguistic knowledge to do their own practical analyses of complex words. Readers are familiarized with the necessary methodological tools to obtain and analyze relevant data and are shown how to relate their findings to theoretical problems and debates. The second edition incorporates new developments in morphology at both the methodological and the theoretical level. It introduces the use of new corpora and data bases, acquaints the reader with state-of-the-art computational algorithms modeling morphology, and brings in current debates and theories.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface to the first edition\u003cbr\u003e Preface to the second edition\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations and notational conventions\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: what this book is about and how it can be used\u003cbr\u003e 1. Basic concepts\u003cbr\u003e 1.1. What is a word?\u003cbr\u003e 1.2. Studying word-formation\u003cbr\u003e 1.3. Inflection and derivation\u003cbr\u003e 1.4. Summary\u003cbr\u003e Further reading\u003cbr\u003e Exercises\u003cbr\u003e 2. Studying complex words\u003cbr\u003e 2.1. Identifying morphemes\u003cbr\u003e 2.1.1. The morpheme as the minimal linguistic sign\u003cbr\u003e 2.1.2. Problems with the morpheme: the mapping of form and meaning\u003cbr\u003e 2.2. Allomorphy\u003cbr\u003e 2.3. Establishing word-formation rules\u003cbr\u003e 2.4. Multiple affixation and compounding\u003cbr\u003e 2.5. Summary\u003cbr\u003e Further reading\u003cbr\u003e Exercises\u003cbr\u003e 3. Productivity and the mental lexicon\u003cbr\u003e 3.1. Introduction: what is productivity?\u003cbr\u003e 3.2. Possible and actual words\u003cbr\u003e 3.3. Complex words in the lexicon\u003cbr\u003e 3.4. Measuring productivity\u003cbr\u003e 3.5. Constraining productivity\u003cbr\u003e 3.5.1. Pragmatic restrictions\u003cbr\u003e 3.5.2. Structural restrictions\u003cbr\u003e 3.5.3. Blocking\u003cbr\u003e 3.6. Summary\u003cbr\u003e Further reading\u003cbr\u003e Exercises\u003cbr\u003e 4. Affixation\u003cbr\u003e 4.1. What is an affix?\u003cbr\u003e 4.2. How to investigate affixes: more on methodology\u003cbr\u003e 4.3. General properties of English affixation\u003cbr\u003e 4.3.1. Phonological properties\u003cbr\u003e 4.3.2. Morphological properties\u003cbr\u003e 4.3.3. Semantic properties\u003cbr\u003e 4.3.4. Classifying affixes\u003cbr\u003e 4.4. Suffixes\u003cbr\u003e 4.4.1. Nominal suffixes\u003cbr\u003e 4.4.2. Verbal suffixes\u003cbr\u003e 4.4.3. Adjectival suffixes\u003cbr\u003e 4.4.4. Adverbial suffixes\u003cbr\u003e 4.5. Prefixes\u003cbr\u003e 4.6. Infixation\u003cbr\u003e 4.7. Summary\u003cbr\u003e Further reading\u003cbr\u003e Exercises\u003cbr\u003e 5. Derivation without affixation\u003cbr\u003e 5.1. Conversion\u003cbr\u003e 5.1.1. The directionality of conversion\u003cbr\u003e 5.1.2. Conversion or zero-affixation?\u003cbr\u003e 5.1.3. Conversion: syntactic or morphological?\u003cbr\u003e 5.2. Prosodic morphology\u003cbr\u003e 5.2.1. Truncations: truncated names, -y diminutives, and clippings\u003cbr\u003e 5.2.2. Blends\u003cbr\u003e 5.3. Abbreviations and acronyms\u003cbr\u003e 5.4. Summary\u003cbr\u003e Further reading\u003cbr\u003e Exercises\u003cbr\u003e 6. Compounding\u003cbr\u003e 6.1. Recognising compounds\u003cbr\u003e 6.1.1. What are compounds made of?\u003cbr\u003e 6.1.2. More on the structure of compounds: the notion of head\u003cbr\u003e 6.1.3. Canonical and non-canonical compounds\u003cbr\u003e 6.1.4. Summary\u003cbr\u003e 6.2. An inventory of compounding patterns\u003cbr\u003e 6.3. Nominal compounds\u003cbr\u003e 6.3.1. Headedness\u003cbr\u003e 6.3.2. Interpreting nominal compounds\u003cbr\u003e 6.3.3. Stress assignment\u003cbr\u003e 6.4. Adjectival compounds\u003cbr\u003e 6.5. Verbal compounds\u003cbr\u003e 6.6\u003cbr\u003e Neoclassical compounds\u003cbr\u003e 6.7. Compounding: syntax or morphology?\u003cbr\u003e 6.8. Summary\u003cbr\u003e Further reading\u003cbr\u003e Exercises\u003cbr\u003e 7. Theoretical issues: modelling word-formation\u003cbr\u003e 7.1. Introduction: why theory?\u003cbr\u003e 7.2. Phonology-morphology interaction\u003cbr\u003e 7.3. Affix ordering\u003cbr\u003e 7.4. The nature of word-formation rules\u003cbr\u003e 7.4.1. Morpheme-based morphology\u003cbr\u003e 7.4.2. Word-based morphology\u003cbr\u003e 7.4.3. Analogy\u003cbr\u003e 7.4.4. Naive Discriminative Learning\u003cbr\u003e 7.4.5. 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