Making new words : morphological derivation in English /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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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.