Word-Formation in English
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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…
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Key features
- Fully updated to account for important new empirical findings and theoretical developments in the field over the past fifteen years
- Chapters 3 and 4 have been revised to include new information on methodological tools and their implementation
- New references are provided to online sources such as the Oxford English Dictionary and the Corpus of Contemporary American English, as well as a range of other new databases and websites
About the book
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316771402
- Series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
- Subjects English Language and Linguistics: General Interest,Language and Linguistics,Morphology
- Format: Hardback
- Publication date: 23 August 2018
- ISBN: 9781107172098
- Dimensions (mm): 247 x 174 mm
- Weight: 0.66kg
- Contains: 39 b/w illus. 36 tables
- Page extent: 258 pages
- Availability: Available
- Format: Paperback
- Publication date: 23 August 2018
- ISBN: 9781316623299
- Dimensions (mm): 247 x 174 mm
- Weight: 0.53kg
- Contains: 39 b/w illus. 36 tables
- Page extent: 258 pages
- Availability: Available
- Format: Digital
- Publication date: 30 April 2019
- ISBN: 9781316771402
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