Handbook of Word-Formation (Paperback, New edition)

This volume, intended both for advanced students and scholars of linguistics, traces the many strands of study in the field of word formation that have developed since the seminal work of Marchand and Lees in the 1960s. In mapping the state of the art in the field of word formation, it avoids a biased approach by presenting different, but mutually complementary frameworks within which research into word formation has taken place. It covers the historical development of theories of word formation within generative grammar, and affords a solid introduction to the treatment of word formation in cognitive grammar, natural morphology, optimality theory, Lexeme Morpheme Base Morphology, onomasiological theory, and other recent frameworks. Each topic is presented by an expert who has contributed significantly to the field. In addition to surveying theoretical developments from both European and North American perspectives, it looks specifically at individual English word formation processes (derivation, compounding, conversion) and reviews some of the ways in which they have been analyzed since Marchanda (TM)s comprehensive treatment nearly five decades ago.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 64
Release date:	March 2006
First published:	2005
Editors:	Pavol Stekauer • Rochelle Lieber
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	470
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4020-3597-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > General
LSN:	1-4020-3597-7
Barcode:	9781402035975

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