The first comprehensive description of English word formation covers inflection and derivation, compounding, conversion, and minor processes such as subtractive morphology. It combines theory-neutral presentation of data with theoretically informed analysis. Written by three outstanding scholars, this is a vital reference resource for all linguists.

• Part I - Introduction


• 1: Aims and Structures


• 2: Basic principles: terminology


• 3: Basic principles: methods


• 4: Orthography


• Part II - Inflection


• 5: Verb inflection


• 6: Adjective and adverb inflection


• 7: Noun inflection


• 8: Function words: pronouns, determiners, why-forms, deictics


• Part III - Derivation


• 9: Derivation: phonological considerations


• 10: Derived nouns: event, state, result


• 11: Derived nouns: personal and participant


• 12: Derived nouns: quality, collective, and other abstracts


• 13: Derived verbs


• 14: Derived adjectives


• 15: Derived adverbs


• 16: Locatives of time and space


• 17: Negatives


• 18: Size, quantity, and attitude


• Part IV Compounding


• 19: Compounds: formal considerations


• 20: Compounds: semantic considerations


• Part V Interaction


• 21: Combination of affixes


• 22: Affi xation on compounds and phrases


• 23: Paradigmatic processes


• Part VI Themes


• 24: Inflection versus derivation


• 25: The analysis and limits of conversion


• 26: Blocking, competition, and productivity


• 27: The nature of stratifi cation


• 28: English morphology in a typological perspective


• 29: English morphology and theories of morphology


• References


• Index of affixes and other formatives


• Index of names


• Index of subjects

Laurie Bauer is Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington. His books include English Word-formation (CUP 1983), Introducing Linguistic Morphology (2nd edn EUP 2003), Morphological Productivity (CUP 2001) and A Glossary of Morphology (EUP 2004). He is one of the editors of the journal Word Structure.
Rochelle Lieber is Professor of Linguistics at the University of New Hampshire and author of Deconstructing Morphology (Chicago 1992), Morphology and Lexical Semantics (CUP 2004), and Introducing Morphology (CUP 2009). She is co-editor with Pavol Stekauer of the Oxford Handbooks of Compounding and Derivational Morphology (OUP 2009 and 2013).
Ingo Plag is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf. His books include Morphological Productivity (Mouton de Gruyter 1999), Word-formation in English (CUP 2003), and Introduction to English Linguistics (with co-authors, Mouton de Gruyter 2009). He is co-editor of the journal Morphology.