Word-Formation in English

by Ingo Plag

Book Overview

This book is the second edition of a highly successful introduction to the study of word-formation, that is, the ways in which new words are built on the bases of other words (e.g. happy - happy-ness), focusing on English. The book's didactic aim is to enable students with little or no prior linguistic knowledge to do their own practical analyses of complex words. Readers are familiarized with the necessary methodological tools to obtain and analyze...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1316623297
• ISBN13: 9781316623299
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 9.6"