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This book is the second edition of a highly successful introduction to the study of wordformation, that is, the ways in which new words are built on the bases of other words (e.g. happy happyness), 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 to the use of new corpora and data bases, acquaints the reader with stateoftheart computational algorithms modeling morphology, and brings in current debates and theories.
Editions of Word-Formation in English
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9781107172098
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781316623299
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This book is the second edition of a highly successful introduction to the study of wordformation, that is, the ways in which new words are built on the bases of other words (e.g. happy happyness), 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 to the use of new corpora and data bases, acquaints the reader with stateoftheart computational algorithms modeling morphology, and brings in current debates and theories.
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This book is the second edition of a highly successful introduction to the study of wordformation, that is, the ways in which new words are built on the bases of other words (e.g. happy happyness), 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 to the use of new corpora and data bases, acquaints the reader with stateoftheart computational algorithms modeling morphology, and brings in current debates and theories.
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Language and Linguistics > Language: reference and general > Language: history and general works
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Ingo Plag
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Word-Formation in English is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781107172098) and paperback(ISBN 9781316623299)