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 Word-formation in English
 
by
Ingo Plag
Universität Siegen
in pressCambridge University PressSeries ‘Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics’Draft version of September 27, 2002
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Introduction ..........................................................................................................11. Basic concepts 41.1. What is a word? 41.2. Studying word-formation 121.3. Inflection and derivation 181.4. Summary 23Further reading 23Exercises 242. Studying complex words 252.1. Identifying morphemes 252.1.1. The morpheme as the minimal linguistic sign 252.1.2. Problems with the morpheme: the mapping ofform and meaning 272.2. Allomorphy 332.3. Establishing word-formation rules 382.4. Multiple affixation 502.5. Summary 53Further reading 54Exercises 553. Productivity and the mental lexicon 55
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 3.1. Introduction: What is productivity? 55
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 3.2. Possible and actual words 56
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 3.3. Complex words in the lexicon 593.4. Measuring productivity 64
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ii3.5. Constraining productivity 733.5.1. Pragmatic restrictions 743.5.2. Structural restrictions 753.5.3. Blocking 793.6. Summary 84Further reading 85Exercises 854. Affixation
 
904.1. What is an affix? 904.2. How to investigate affixes: More on methodology 934.3. General properties of English affixation 984.4. Suffixes 1094.4.1. Nominal suffixes 1094.4.2. Verbal suffixes 1164.4.3. Adjectival suffixes 1184.4.4. Adverbial suffixes 1234.5. Prefixes 1234.6. Infixation 1274.7. Summary 130Further reading 131Exercises 1315. Derivation without affixation 1345.1. Conversion 1345.1.1. The directionality of conversion 1355.1.2. Conversion or zero-affixation? 1405.1.3. Conversion: Syntactic or morphological? 1435.2. Prosodic morphology 1455.2.1. Truncations: Truncated names,
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diminutives and clippings 1465.2.2. Blends 150
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