... fresh rain in a forest in the fall. Certainly a unified concept, but we would not consider the smell of fresh rain in a forest in the fall a word. In fact, English simply has no single word for ... what exactly we are dealing with in the study of word- formation. 2. Studying word- formation As the term word- formation suggests, we are dealing with the formation of wor...
... fresh rain in a forest in the fall. Certainly a unified concept, but we would not consider the smell of fresh rain in a forest in the fall a word. In fact, English simply has no single word for ... what exactly we are dealing with in the study of word- formation. 2. Studying word- formation As the term word- formation suggests, we are dealing with the formation of wor...
. Word- formation in English by Ingo Plag Universität Siegen in press Cambridge University Press Series ‘Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics’ Draft. draws on insights from various research traditions. Word- formation in English can be used as a textbook for a course on word- formation (or the word- formation
... one is interested in words with the suffix -ion, the pertinent words are
found in one subsection, with no non-pertinent words intervening. Thus, words
ending in the same string of letters, such ... certain sets of affixes can also be
illustrated by another interesting phenomenon. Both in compounding and in certain
cases of affixation it is possible to coordinate two words by...
... certain sets of affixes can also be
illustrated by another interesting phenomenon. Both in compounding and in certain
cases of affixation it is possible to coordinate two words by leaving out ... this kind of dictionary is extremely practical for the analysis of
word- formation patterns, but has the disadvantage of containing nothing but word-
forms, hence not giving any additi...