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Making new words : morphological derivation in English / R.M.W. Dixon. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dixon, Robert M. W., 1939- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Suffixes and prefixes.
- English language.
- English language--New words.
- English language--Morphology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 448 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- 'Making New Words' provides a detailed study of roughly 200 prefixes and suffixes which create new words in today's English. Alongside a systematic discussion of these forms, Professor Dixon explores and explains the hundreds of conundrums that seem to be exceptions to general rules: why do we say un-distinguished (with prefix un-) but in-distinguishable (with in-); why un-ceasing but in-cesssant? Why, alongside gold-en, do we say silver-y (not silver-en)? Why is it wood-en (not wood-ic) but metall-ic (not metall-en)?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-178090-1
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