Making new words : morphological derivation in English /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dixon, Robert M. W., 1939- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Preliminaries
  • How to make new words
  • Criteria--affixes, semi-affixes, and compounds
  • What we describe
  • Un-expected, mis-judged, dis-organized counter-revolution : making negative words
  • Ultra-patriotic, extra-special, pre-election pseudo-promise : keeping the same word class
  • Be-feather, smart-en, em-power, beauti-fy, moral-ize : making new verbs
  • Moon-like, death-ly, angr-y, mysteri-ous, memor-able : making new adjectives
  • Eager-ness, bidd-ing, pay-ment, owner-ship, satisf-action : making new nouns
  • Care-ful-ly, side-ways, home-wards, crab-fashion : making new adverbs
  • Un-relent-less-ly de-west-ern-iz-ing non-mean-ing-ful infra-structures : combining affixes
  • Envoi : the way of words
  • Appendix 1 : list of adjective and verb semantic types, with sample members
  • Appendix 2 : alphabetical directory of adjectives and verbs in the list of semantic types.