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 (eg …

Introduction Structural categories of grammar (such as clitic, affix, compound, adjective,
pronoun, dative, subject, passive, diphthong, coronal) have to be posited by linguists and by …

The proper classification and demarcation of morphological phenomena is an important
issue in handbooks and textbooks of morphology. This issue is not only a matter of …

There is a long-standing debate about the principles and mechanisms that constrain the
combinatorial properties of affixes, in particular of English suffixes. One group of scholars …

There is a long-standing debate about the principles constraining the combinatorial
properties of suffixes. Hay 2002 and Hay & Plag 2004 proposed a model in which suffixes …

This chapter discusses a central notion in morphology, that is, productivity, focusing on
English word‐formation. First, qualitative and quantitative approaches to productivity are …

The borderline between derivation and compounding is permeable in both directions: things
which were once compounds can be seen as affixed forms, and things which were once …

Blocking and elsewhere distribution have been at the forefront of morphological theory for
half a century. Each involves the preemption of one word by another. Neither is fundamental …

This chapter argues that there is no absolute boundary between analogy and abstract
schemas in word formation. Patterns of compounding are captured by constructional …

This paper results from some brief comments on examples like (1) these sort of ideas (1788)
in (Denison 1998: 121-122), in which I suggested that the phrase these sort of might be a …