Word Formation in the Noun and Adjective

Mr Norbury describes the ways in which nouns and adjectives are built up in Russian.

J. K. W. Norbury (Author)

9780521094603, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 May 1967

140 pages
21.6 x 14 x 0.8 cm, 0.18 kg

Mr Norbury describes the ways in which nouns and adjectives are built up in Russian. He deals at length with the most useful and important of these: affixation, deaffixation, compounding. Each of the affixes in common use is discussed, the structure of compound words is shown in tabular form, and a list of some 500 simple and compound affixes ends the book. Comparisons with English uses and procedures are made throughout.

1. Introduction
2. Non-derivatory procedures
3. Derivatory Procedures: I
4. Derivatory Procedures: II
5. Derivatory Procedures: III
6. Word formation in Russian: An historical outline
7. Conclusions
8. The most commonly used affixes
9. A list of Affixes.

Subject Areas: Linguistics [CF]