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 linguis
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This book is an 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 a
Interest in word-formation is probably as old as interest in language itself. As Dr Bauer points out in his Introduction, many of the questions that scholars are asking now were also being asked in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. However, there is still little agreement on meth
Книга вводит читателя в введение в словообразование, то есть способ, которым новые слова образуются на базе других слов (happy - happy-ness) в английском. Обучающая цель книги -вооружить студентов небольшими или важными знаниями чтобы они могли делать свой собственный анализ сложных слов. Читателя з
Providing an accessible introduction to the study of word-formation, this text focuses specifically on English. Assuming no prior linguistic knowledge, Ingo Plag explains the fundamentals of word-formation, demonstrating how morphemes--the elements of a word's internal structure--can function to rel
Covers derivational and compound word formation in English morphology in depth, using a cognitive linguistics semantic framework.