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Author Plag, Ingo.

Title Morphological productivity : structural constraints in English derivation / by Ingo Plag
Published Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1999

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Description ix, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Topics in English linguistics ; 28
Topics in English linguistics ; 28
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Productivity: Definitions and measurements -- 3. Restrictions on productivity -- 4. The combinability of derivational suffixes -- 5. Rival morphological processes 1: The productivity of verb-deriving processes -- 6. Rival morphological processes 2: The structural properties of -ize derivatives -- 7. Rival morphological processes 3: The structural properties of other verb-deriving processes -- 8. Rival morphological processes 4: Where have all the rivals gone? -- 9. Conclusion -- App. 1. 20th century neologisms from the OED -- App. 2. Hapax legomena from the Cobuild corpus
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-269) and indexes
Subject English language -- Morphology.
English language -- Word formation.
LC no. 98051325
ISBN 3110158337 (cloth : alk. paper)