Drawing on detailed case studies across a range of languages, including English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Russian, Lithuanian and Gree

This book deals with the interplay between word-formation and metonymy. It shows that, like metaphor, metonymy interacts in important ways with morphological st

In the study of word formation, the focus has often been on generating the form. In this book, the semantic aspect of the formation of new words is central. It

This book focuses on the lexical borrowing between English and Arabic, and offers historical background regarding the contact between these two languages. It sh

This textbook provides an accessible introduction to the study of word-formation, that is, the ways in which new words are built on the bases of other words (e.