Word-formation in English

“Word-formation in English” can be used as a textbook for a course on word-information (or the word-information parts of morphology courses) as a source – book for teachers for student research projects as a book for self – study by more advanced students.

Word-formation in English

Ingo Plag

Cambridge University Press

2002

Abstract

The existence of words is usually taken for granted by the speakers of a language. To speak and understand a language means among many other things knowing the words of that language. The average speaker knows thousands of words and new words enter our minds and our language on a daily basis. This book is about words. More specifically, it deals with the internal structure of complex words. “Word-formation in English” can be used as a textbook for a course on word-information (or the word-information parts of morphology courses) as a source – book for teachers for student research projects as a book for self – study by more advanced students.

Table of Contents:

1. Basic concepts
2. Studing complex words
3. Productivity and the mental lexicon
4. Affixation
5. Derivation without affixation
6. Compounding
7. Theoretical issues: modeling word - formation

Citation

Ingo Plag. Word-formation in English. Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Collection

Ngành NGÔN NGỮ ANH (7220201)

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