Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale develop an approach to language change
based on construction grammar. Construction grammar is a theory of signs construed at the …

In construction morphology, complex words are seen as constructions on the word level. The
notion 'construction', a pairing of form and meaning, as developed in the theory of …

Language is one of the most fundamental defining features of the human being, and
scholars have been trying to capture its essentials for thousands of years. One way of doing …

A pioneering book establishing the foundations for research into word-formation typology
and tendencies. It fills a gap in cross-linguistic research by being the first systematic survey …

Abstract The English-language Princeton WordNet (PWN) and some wordnets for other
languages have been extensively used as lexical–semantic knowledge sources in language …

Making New Words provides a detailed study of the 200 or so prefixes and suffixes which
create new words in today's English. Alongside a systematic discussion of these forms …

Evidentiality–a grammatical expression of information source (,)–is often expressed on a
clausal level, and its marking is associated with the verb. In a few languages, a noun phrase …

We propose a theory of the lexicon in which rules of grammar, encoded as declarative
schemas, are lexical items containing variables. We develop a notation to encode precise …

This dissertation describes Eastern Geshiza, a previously insufficiently known Trans-
Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan) Horpa language spoken primarily in eastern Geshiza Valley of …

This chapter argues that there is no absolute boundary between analogy and abstract
schemas in word formation. Patterns of compounding are captured by constructional …