The existence of words is usually taken for granted by the speakers of a language. To speak and understand a language means - among many other things - knowing the words of that language. The average speaker knows thousands of words, and new words enter our minds and our language on a daily basis. | For more material and information please visit Tai Lieu Du Hoc at Word-formation in English by Ingo Plag Universität Siegen in press Cambridge University Press Series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics Draft version of September 27 2002 For more material and information please visit Tai Lieu Du Hoc at i Table of Contents Introduction .1 1. Basic concepts. 4 . What is a word . 4 . Studying . Inflection and . Further Exercises 24 2. Studying complex . Identifying . The morpheme as the minimal linguistic . Problems with the morpheme the mapping of form and meaning 27 . . Establishing word-formation . Multiple . Further Exercises 55 3. Productivity and the mental . Introduction What is productivity .551 . Possible and actual . Complex words in the . Measuring 1 Pages 55-57 appear twice due to software-induced layout-alterations that occur when the word for windows files are converted into PDF. For more material and information please visit Tai Lieu Du Hoc at ii . Constraining productivity .73 . Pragmatic . Structural . . Further Exercises 85 4. . What is an affix .90 . How to investigate affixes More on . General properties of English . . Nominal . Verbal . Adjectival . Adverbial . . . Further Exercises 131 5. Derivation without . . The directionality of . Conversion or zero-affixation .140 . Conversion Syntactic or .
