Word-Formation in English (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2, 7/12/2018
EAN 9781316623299, ISBN10: 1316623297
Paperback, 258 pages, 24.5 x 17.7 x 1.2 cm
Language: English
This book is the second edition of a highly successful introduction to the study of word-formation, that is, the ways in which new words are built on the bases of other words (e.g. happy - happy-ness), focusing on English. The book's didactic aim is to enable students with little or no prior linguistic knowledge to do their own practical analyses of complex words. Readers are familiarized with the necessary methodological tools to obtain and analyze relevant data and are shown how to relate their findings to theoretical problems and debates. The second edition incorporates new developments in morphology at both the methodological and the theoretical level. It introduces the use of new corpora and data bases, acquaints the reader with state-of-the-art computational algorithms modeling morphology, and brings in current debates and theories.
Preface to the first edition
Preface to the second edition
Abbreviations and notational conventions
Introduction
what this book is about and how it can be used
1. Basic concepts
1.1. What is a word?
1.2. Studying word-formation
1.3. Inflection and derivation
1.4. Summary
Further reading
Exercises
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
Further reading
Exercises
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
Further reading
Exercises
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
Further reading
Exercises
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
Further reading
Exercises
6. Compounding
6.1. Recognising 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
Further reading
Exercises
7. Theoretical issues
modelling 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
7.4.5. Summary
Further reading
Exercises
Answer key to exercises
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
References
Index.