"This book is the most comprehensive study to date of the development of the three suffixes -hood, -dom and -ship in the history of English. An in-depth investi

This book is the most comprehensive study to date of the development of the three suffixes -hood, -dom and -ship in the history of English. An in depth investig

In the study of word formation, the focus has often been on generating the form. In this book, the semantic aspect of the formation of new words is central. It

This handbook comprises an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in word-formation. The five volumes contain 207 articles written by leading internation

A lexically based, corpus-driven theoretical approach to meaning in language that distinguishes between patterns of normal use and creative exploitations of nor