Word-formation in English / Ingo Plag.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Plag, Ingo, author.

Series:

Cambridge textbooks in linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Word formation.

English language.

English language--Morphology.

Physical Description:

xv, 245 pages ; 25 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Contents:

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

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

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107172098

1107172098

9781316623299

1316623297

OCLC:

1019853680

Publisher Number:

99989813961