This handbook comprises an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in word-formation. The five volumes contain 207 articles written by leading international scholars. The XVI chapters of the handbook provide the reader, in both general articles and individual studies, with a wide variety of perspectives: word-formation as a linguistic discipline (history of science, theoretical concepts), units and processes in word-formation, rules and restrictions, semantics and pragmatics, foreign word-formation, language planning and purism, historical word-formation, word-formation in language acquisition and aphasia, word-formation and language use, tools in word-formation research. The final chapter comprises 74 portraits of word-formation in the individual languages of Europe and offers an innovative perspective. These portraits afford the first overview of this kind and will prove useful for future typological research. This handbook will provide an essential reference for both advanced students and researchers in word-formation and related fields within linguistics.

The volume assembles 25 papers delivered at (and additional contributions to) the conference on -Historical Word Formation in German- held 10-14 October 2000 in Erlangen. The main headings are: I. General aspects of historical word formation, II. Word formation in various epochs of the history of German, III. Word formation and language contact."

The study essays an overall view of 16th century German lexicography on the basis of single-, two- and multi-language dictionaries printed on German-speaking territory in that period. The following aspects are dealt with: dictionary typology (forms of lemma selection and commentary); prefaces and postscripts to dictionaries; dictionary titles; author, addressee and user intentions; dictionaries from dictionaries; dictionaries and their German vocabularies; German lexicography in the European context; links with 15th and 17th century lexicography. 100 reproductions from dictionaries of the period illustrate the argument.

Im Anschluss an die Beschreibung der pragmatischen Indizierung des Durer-Korpus und der Entwicklung einer Methodik fur historisch-synchrone Wortbildungsuntersuchungen werden die im handschriftlichen Nachlass und den Druckschriften Albrecht Durers nachweisbaren Substantivableitungen (Bildungen mit Prafix, Suffix, Prafix-Suffix bzw. ohne Affix) unter morphologischem und semantisch-funktionalem Aspekt analysiert. Die synchrone Analyse wird erganzt durch den diachronen Vergleich mit dem System der Substantivableitungen in der geschriebenen und gesprochenen Gegenwartssprache."

Das Thema Fremdwortbildung gehoert erst seit kurzem zum Forschungsgegenstand der germanistischen Wortbildungslehre. In traditionellen Arbeiten blieb dieser Bereich - auch aus puristischen Grunden - dagegen weitgehend ausgespart. Die Bestrebungen, diese Lucke zu schliessen, reichen bis in die 1960er Jahre zuruck. Seitdem wurde die Fremdwortbildungsforschung zwar intensiviert, doch bestehen auch noch heute zahlreiche Forschungsdesiderate, wozu sowohl empirische Untersuchungen als auch methodisch-theoretische UEberlegungen zahlen. Der Band zeichnet anhand von 31 Beitragen die Forschungsgeschichte nach und soll zugleich Anregungen fur die zukunftige Klarung offener Fragen und Probleme liefern. Eine Einfuhrung und eine Bibliographie runden die Textsammlung ab und dienen der weiteren Orientierung.

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