This fascinating book treats the use of words from a completely new perspective. Far from being purely abstract entities, words are believed to emerge from an i

This book aims to contribute to a growing interest amongst psycholinguists and morphologists in the mechanisms of meaning predictability. It presents a brand-ne

This is the most comprehensive book to date on word formation in terms of scope of topics, schools and theoretical positions. All contributions were written by

This textbook provides an accessible introduction to the study of word-formation, that is, the ways in which new words are built on the bases of other words (e.

Fills a gap in cross-linguistic research by being the first systematic survey of the word-formation of the world's languages. Data from fifty-five world languag