Word-Formation in English
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This book is the second edition of a highly successful introduction to the study of word-formation, that is, the ways in which new words are built on the bases of other words (e.g. happy - happy-ness), focusing on English. The book's didactic aim is to enable students with little or no prior linguistic knowledge to do their own practical analyses of complex words. Readers are familiarized with the necessary methodological tools to obtain and analyze relevant data and are shown how to relate their findings to theoretical problems and debates. The second edition incorporates new developments in morphology at both the methodological and the theoretical level. It introduces the use of new corpora and data bases, acquaints the reader with state-of-the-art computational algorithms modeling morphology, and brings in current debates and theories.
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The plural suffix -s and the -'s clitic marking the genitive case are important because they encode grammatical categories, are syntactically relevant, and are fully productive in that they can be attached regularly to any word of the appropriate class.
“In summary, I argue that the plural suffix -s and the -’s clitic marking the genitive case are important because they encode grammatical categories, are syntactically relevant and are fully productive in that they can be attached regularly to any word of the appropriate class [47] (see also [28]).”
From Can grammatical morphemes be taught? Evidence of gestures influencing second language procedural learning in middle childhood (2023) · cites this paper as [47]
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Janzen Ulbricht, N. (2023) · PLOS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0280543 · Cited by 3 · see citing works
- Authors
- Plag, I.
- Affiliations
- Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Plag, Ingo
- ORCID
- Plag, Ingo
- Venue
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2003-10-30
- OpenAlex
- W1586401530
- Cited by
- 1,591
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 29.29
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Linguistics and Language Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Lexicography and Language Studies
- Keywords
- word formation, English morphology, derivational morphology, compounding, complex words, word formation theory, computational morphology
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