Isabel Balteiro describes the three main problems that the word-formation process know as conversion presents, namely those related to its definition, its delim

Drawing on the conceptual metaphor and metonymy theory outlined in works by George Lakoff, René Dirven, Günter Radden and Zoltán Kövecses, Conversion in Eng

The focus of Paradigms in Word Formation: Theory and applications is on the relevance of paradigms for linguistic description. Paradigmatic organization has tra

The book enables students with little prior knowledge of linguistics to engage in their own analyses of complex words.

This thematic publication contains papers presented by invited speakers at a symposium of Conversion / Zero-Derivation held in conjunction with the 10th Interna