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Handbook of Word-Formation

  • The most comprehensive book to date on word formation in terms of scope of topics, schools and theoretical positions

  • All contributions were written by the leading scholars in their respective areas

Part of the book series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (SNLT, volume 64)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-4
  2. Basic Terminology

    • Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy
    Pages 5-23
  3. Word-Formation and Phonology

    • Ellen M. Kaisse
    Pages 25-47
  4. Word-Formation and Inflectional Morphology

    • Gregory T. Stump
    Pages 49-71
  5. Word-Formation and Syntax

    • Andrew Spencer
    Pages 73-97
  6. Hans Marchand and the Marchandeans

    • Dieter Kastovsky
    Pages 99-124
  7. The Lexicalist Approach to Word-Formation and the Notion of the Lexicon

    • Sergio Scalise, Emiliano Guevara
    Pages 147-187
  8. Lexeme-Morpheme Base Morphology

    • Robert Beard, Mark Volpe
    Pages 189-205
  9. Onomasiological Approach to Word-Formation

    • Pavol Štekauer
    Pages 207-232
  10. Cognitive Approach to Word-Formation

    • David Tuggy
    Pages 233-265
  11. Word-Formation in Natural Morphology

    • Wolfgang U. Dressler
    Pages 267-284
  12. Word-Formation in Optimality Theory

    • Peter Ackema, Ad Neeleman
    Pages 285-313
  13. Productivity: Theories

    • Laurie Bauer
    Pages 315-334
  14. Constraints on Productivity

    • Franz Rainer
    Pages 335-352
  15. Lexicalization and Institutionalization

    • Peter Hohenhaus
    Pages 353-373
  16. English Word-Formation Processes

    • Rochelle Lieber
    Pages 375-427
  17. The Latest Trends In English Word-Formation

    • Bogdan Szymanek
    Pages 429-448
  18. Back Matter

    Pages 449-470

About this book

xiv 4. Final remarks 349 PETER HOHENHAUS: LEXICALIZATI ION AND INSTITUTIONALIZATION TITUTIONALIZATION 353 1. Introduction 353 2. Lexicalization 353 2. 1 LEXICALIZATION IN A DIACHRONIC SENSE 353 2. 2 LEXICALIZATION IN A SYNCHRONIC SENSE: LISTING/LISTEDNESS 356 2. 3 THE LEXICON AND THEORIESOF WORD-FORMATION 357 3. Institutionalization359 3. 1 TERMINOLOGY 359 3. 2 IDEAL AND REAL SPEAKERS AND THE SPEECH COMMUNITY 360 3. 3 DE-INSTITUTIONALIZATION: THE END OF A WORD’S LIFE 362 4. Problems 363 4. 1 NONCE-FORMATIONS AND NEOLOGISMS 363 4. 2 (NON-)LEXICALIZABILITY 365 4. 3 WHAT IS IN THE (MENTAL) LEXICON AND HOW DOES IT GET THERE? 367 4. 4 UNPREDICTABLE & PLAYFUL FORMATIONS, ANALOGY, FADS, AND NEW DEVELOPMENTS 369 4. 5 LEXICALIZATION BEYOND WORDS 370 ROCHELLE LIEBER: ENGLISH WORD-FORMATION PROCESSES 375 1. Introduction 375 2. Compounding 375 2. 1 DETERMINING WHAT COUNTS AS A COMPOUND 376 2. 2 ROOT COMPOUNDING 378 2. 3 SYNTHETIC COMPOUNDING 379 2. 4 STRUCTURE AND INTERPRETATION 379 3. Derivation 383 3. 1 PREFIXATION 390 3. 1. 1 Negative prefixes (un-, in-, non-, de-, dis-) 391 3. 1. 2 Locational prefixes 393 3. 1. 3 Temporal and aspectual prefixes 400 3. 1. 4 Quantitative prefixes 402 CONTENTS xv 3. 1. 5 Verbal prefixes 402 3. 2 SUFFIXATION 403 3. 2. 1 Personal nouns 403 3. 2. 2 Abstract nouns 406 3. 2. 3 Verb-forming suffixes 410 3. 2. 4 Adjective-forming suffixes 413 3. 2. 5 Collectives 417 3. 3 CONCLUSION 418 4. Conversion 418 5.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Prešov University, Prešov, Slovakia

    Pavol Štekauer

  • University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA

    Rochelle Lieber

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Handbook of Word-Formation

  • Editors: Pavol Štekauer, Rochelle Lieber

  • Series Title: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3596-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3595-1Published: 29 July 2005

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3597-5Published: 01 March 2006

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3596-8Published: 30 March 2006

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4670

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0358

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 470

  • Topics: Grammar, Linguistics, general

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