This fascinating book treats the use of words from a completely new perspective. Far from being purely abstract entities, words are believed to emerge from an i

This book aims to contribute to a growing interest amongst psycholinguists and morphologists in the mechanisms of meaning predictability. It presents a brand-ne

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

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

Although the illustrative material is drawn principally from English, general points are illustrated with a variety of languages to provide a new perspective on