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
- 25 Reflections on Dead Morphology
- 26 Reflections on Compounds in English and in Wider Germanic
- Part VII Questions Involving Inflection
- Index of Topics
- Index of English Word-Forming Elements
- References
25 - Reflections on Dead Morphology
from Part VI - Historical Questions
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
- 25 Reflections on Dead Morphology
- 26 Reflections on Compounds in English and in Wider Germanic
- Part VII Questions Involving Inflection
- Index of Topics
- Index of English Word-Forming Elements
- References
Summary
A number of word-formation patterns, no longer productive in modern English, have nonetheless left traces in the form of words which are no longer perceived as being morphologically complex. The factors that cause the individual patterns to die away illustrate what is needed for a word-formation pattern to remain productive.
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- Reflections on English Word-Formation , pp. 187 - 192Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
References
OED. The Oxford English Dictionary [online]. oed.comGoogle Scholar
Wescott, Roger W. (1970). Types of vowel alternation in English. Word 26, 309–43.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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