EAN: 9783503170128

ENGLISH MORPHOLOGY AND WORD-FORMATION - HANS-JÖ...

Serving as an introduction to English morphology and word-formation  this book also tries to
advance the state-of-the-art in this field. The author takes his readers gently through the
basic notions and discusses problematic areas. All chapters are approached systematically from
three different angles focusing on structural  cognitive and sociopragmatic aspects of the
field. In this way  new perspectives are opened particularly on the development and
establishment of new complex words  on the cognitive functions of word-formation patterns and
on the field of conversion. Students of English and linguistics will be able to use this book
as an introduction and for preparing exams  term papers and final theses. The large number of
examples is taken from a corpus of authentic language  which also serves as a basis for
frequency counts of morphological features and elements in different text-types. This revised
and enlarged third edition features a new chapter dealing with theoretical models of
word-formation. Schmid's approach is in many ways a fresh and original one. The systematic use
of a corpus is a very welcome innovation  ensuring that the book is well grounded in up-to-date
authentic materials. Geoffrey Leech  Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics  Lancaster
University. Excellent! A reliable  comprehensive account with numerous 'real language' examples
from corpora. Just what students need! Jean Aitchison  Emeritus Rupert Murdoch Professor of
Language and Communication  University of Oxford.

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