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 (eg …

English Lexicogenesis investigates the processes by which novel words are coined in
English, and how they are variously discarded or adopted, and frequently then adapted …

This chapter reviews multi-word expressions, compounds, and their mutual relation
regarding their status in grammar and lexicon in contemporary German. 1 Both multi-word …

Conversion is a key type of word-formation process in English, but the precise nature of the
relation between base and derivative in conversion is rarely discussed, even if conversion is …

Many natural and formal languages contain words or symbols that require a matching
counterpart for making an expression well-formed. The combination of opening and closing …

The term lexicalization describes the addition of new open-class elements to a repository of
holistically processed linguistic units. At the basis of lexicalization are word-formation …

This paper investigates what kinds of meanings are expressed by circumfixes cross-
linguistically, with an eye toward explaining this rare formal phenomenon. Based on the …

This book offers an innovative, unified theoretical model for better understanding the
processes underpinning naming and framing and the power that words exert over human …

Keine menschliche Sprache kommt ohne Wörter aus, und keine sprachliche Einheit genießt
so viel öffentliches Interesse wie das Wort. So werden» Wörter des Jahres «gewählt, aber …

Langjährige Unterrichtserfahrung hat das Autorenteam in der Überzeugung bestärkt, dass
die effizienteste Form der Heranführung von Studierenden im ersten Semester an die …