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Making new words : morphological derivation in English
- Title
- Making new words : morphological derivation in English / R.M.W. Dixon, Language and Culture Research Centre, James Cook University.
- Author
- Dixon, Robert M. W., 1939-
- Publication
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- ©2014
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Details
- Description
- xv, 448 pages; 25 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-438) and indexes.
- Contents
- Preliminaries -- How to make new words -- Criteria -- affixes, semi-affixes, and compounds -- What we describe -- Un-expected, mis-judged, dis-organized counter-revolution : making negative words -- Ultra-patriotic, extra-special, pre-election pseudo-promise : keeping the same word class -- Be-feather, smart-en, em-power, beauti-fy, moral-ize : making new verbs -- Moon-like, death-ly, angr-y, mysteri-ous, memor-able : making new adjectives -- Eager-ness, bidd-ing, pay-ment, owner-ship, satisf-action : making new nouns -- Care-ful-ly, side-ways, home-wards, crab-fashion : making new adverbs -- Un-relent-less-ly de-west-ern-iz-ing non-mean-ing-ful infra-structures : combining affixes -- Envoi : the way of words -- Appendix 1 : list of adjective and verb semantic types, with sample members -- Appendix 2 : alphabetical directory of adjectives and verbs in the list of semantic types.
- Call Number
- JFF 15-43
- ISBN
- 9780198712374 (pbk.)
- 0198712375 (pbk.)
- 9780198712367 (hbk.)
- 0198712367 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- 2013956032
- OCLC
- 892559757
- Author
- Dixon, Robert M. W., 1939- author.
- Title
- Making new words : morphological derivation in English / R.M.W. Dixon, Language and Culture Research Centre, James Cook University.
- Publisher
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Copyright Date
- ©2014
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-438) and indexes.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 15-43