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1、Word-formationinEnglishbyIngoPlagUniversitätSiegeninpressCambridgeUniversityPressSeries‘CambridgeTextbooksinLinguistics’DraftversionofSeptember27,2002iTABLEOFCONTENTSIntroduction..........................................................................

2、................................11.Basicconcepts41.1.Whatisaword?41.2.Studyingword-formation121.3.Inflectionandderivation181.4.Summary23Furtherreading23Exercises242.Studyingcomplexwords252.1.Identifyingmorphemes252.1.1.Themorphemeastheminimallinguistic

3、sign252.1.2.Problemswiththemorpheme:themappingofformandmeaning272.2.Allomorphy332.3.Establishingword-formationrules382.4.Multipleaffixation502.5.Summary53Furtherreading54Exercises553.Productivityandthementallexicon5513.1.Introduction:Whatisproductivity

4、?5513.2.Possibleandactualwords5613.3.Complexwordsinthelexicon593.4.Measuringproductivity641Pages55-57appeartwiceduetosoftware-inducedlayout-alterationsthatoccurwhenthewordforwindowsfilesareconvertedintoPDF.ii3.5.Constrainingproductivity733.5.1.Pragmati

5、crestrictions743.5.2.Structuralrestrictions753.5.3.Blocking793.6.Summary84Furtherreading85Exercises854.Affixation904.1.Whatisanaffix?904.2.Howtoinvestigateaffixes:Moreonmethodology934.3.GeneralpropertiesofEnglishaffixation984.4.Suffixes1094.4.1.Nominal

6、suffixes1094.4.2.Verbalsuffixes1164.4.3.Adjectivalsuffixes1184.4.4.Adverbialsuffixes1234.5.Prefixes1234.6.Infixation1274.7.Summary130Furtherreading131Exercises1315.Derivationwithoutaffixation1345.1.Conversion1345.1.1.Thedirectionalityofconversion1355.1

7、.2.Conversionorzero-affixation?1405.1.3.Conversion:Syntacticormorphological?1435.2.Prosodicmorphology1455.2.1.Truncations:Truncatednames,-ydiminutivesandclippings1465.2.2.Blends150iii5.3.Abbreviationsandacronyms1605.4.Summary165Furtherreading165Exercis

8、es1666.Compounding1696.1.Recognizingcompounds1696.1.1.Whatarecompoundsmadeof?1696.1.2.Moreonthestructureofcompounds:thenotionofhead1736.1.3.Stressincompounds1756.1.4.Summary1816.2.Aninventoryofcompoundingpatterns1816.3.Nominalcompounds1