This study of reduplication in Afrikaans sheds new light on fundamental lexicalist principles of word formation.

Pavol Stekauer presents an original approach to the intricate problems of English word-formation. The emphasis is on the process of coining new naming units (wo

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.

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

Fills a gap in cross-linguistic research by being the first systematic survey of the word-formation of the world's languages. Data from fifty-five world languag