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TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas

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

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 book is about the integration into English of the five nominal suffixes -ment, -ance, -ation, -age and -al, which entered Middle English via borrowings fro

The 19 papers in this volume are a selection from a UCLA conference intended to take stock of the state of the field at the beginning of the new millenium and t