Book contents
- Reflections on English Word-Formation
- Reflections on English Word-Formation
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Conventions and Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Basic Questions
- Part II Semantic Questions
- Part III Syntactic Questions
- Part IV Interfaces
- Part V Patterns of Word-Formation in English
- Part VI Historical Questions
- Part VII Questions Involving Inflection
- Index of Topics
- Index of English Word-Forming Elements
- References
1 - Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 October 2025
Book contents
- Reflections on English Word-Formation
- Reflections on English Word-Formation
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Conventions and Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Basic Questions
- Part II Semantic Questions
- Part III Syntactic Questions
- Part IV Interfaces
- Part V Patterns of Word-Formation in English
- Part VI Historical Questions
- Part VII Questions Involving Inflection
- Index of Topics
- Index of English Word-Forming Elements
- References
Summary
This chapter provides an introduction to the book, defining the topic to be discussed, and looking at alternative ways of approaching it.
Information
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Reflections on English Word-Formation , pp. 1 - 10Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
References
Anderson, Stephen R. (1992). A-morphous Morphology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Anderson, Stephen R. (2004). Dr Dolittle’s Delusion: Animals and the Uniqueness of Human Communication. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.Google Scholar
Anderson, Stephen R. (2015). The morpheme: Its nature and use. In Baermann, Matthew (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Inflection. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 11–33.Google Scholar
Bauer, Laurie. (1983). English Word-Formation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bauer, Laurie (2001). Morphological Productivity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bauer, Laurie (2016). Classical morphemics: Assumptions, extensions, and alternatives. In Hippisley, Andrew & Stump, Gregory (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Morphology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 331–55.Google Scholar
Bauer, Laurie (2019). Rethinking Morphology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chomsky, Noam & Halle, Morris. (1968). The Sound Pattern of English. New York: Harper & Row.Google Scholar
Coates, Richard. (1987). Lexical morphology. In Lyons, John, Coates, Richard, Deuchar, Margaret & Gazdar, Gerald (eds.), New Horizons in Linguistics 2. London: Pelican, 103–21.Google Scholar
Corbett, Greville G. (2010). Canonical derivational morphology. Word Structure 3, 141–55.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Halle, Morris & Marantz, Alex. (1994). Distributed Morphology and the pieces of inflection. In Hale, Kenneth & Samuel, J. Keyser (eds.), The View from Building 20. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 111–76.Google Scholar
Lees, Robert B. (1960). The Grammar of English Nominalizations. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.Google Scholar
Matthews, P.H. (1972). Inflectional Morphology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Rosch, Eleanor H. (1973). On the internal structure of perceptual and semantic categories. In Moore, T.E. (ed.), Cognitive Development and the Acquisition of Language, New York: Academic Press, 111–44.Google Scholar
Stewart, Thomas W. (2015). Contemporary Morphological Theories. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Taylor, John. (2003). Linguistic Categorization. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Accessibility standard: Unknown
Accessibility compliance for the PDF of this book is currently unknown
and may be updated in the future.