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 international scholars. The 16 sections of the handbook provide the reader in general articles and individual studies with a wide variety of perspectives. The final section contains 74 portraits of word-formation in the individual languages of Europe and offers an innovative perspective.
Author(s): Ingeborg Ohnheiser; Susan Olsen; Franz Rainer
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 838
Contents
VIII. Foreign word-formation, language planning and purism I: General aspects
90. Types of foreign word-formation
91. Word-formation in Neo-Latin
92. Foreign word-formation, language planning and purism
IX. Foreign word-formation, language planning and purism II: Special cases
93. Foreign word-formation in German
94. Foreign word-formation in English
95. Foreign word-formation in Italian
96. Foreign word-formation in Polish
97. Word-formation and purism in German
98. Word-formation and purism in French
99. Word-formation and purism in Croatian
100. Word-formation and language planning in Estonian
101. Individual initiatives and concepts for expanding the lexicon in Russian
X. Historical word-formation I: General aspects
102. Mechanisms and motives of change in word-formation
103. Change in productivity
XI. Historical word-formation II: Special cases
104. Grammaticalization in German word-formation
105. The grammaticalization of prepositions in French word-formation
106. The Romance adverbs in -mente: a case study in grammaticalization
107. Grammaticalization in Slavic word-formation
108. The origin of suffixes in Romance
XII. Historical word-formation III: Language sketches
109. Historical word-formation in German
110. Historical word-formation in English
111. From Latin to Romance
112. From Latin to Romanian
113. From Old French to Modern French
114. From Old Irish to Modern Irish
115. Historical word-formation in Slavic
116. From Ancient Greek to Modern Greek
117. The history of word-formation in Uralic
118. From Old Hungarian to Modern Hungarian
119. Historical word-formation in Turkish
XIII. Word-formation in language acquisition and aphasia
120. Word-formation in first language acquisition
121. Word-formation in second language acquisition
122. Word-formation in aphasia
XIV. Word-formation and language use
123. Word-formation and text
124. Word-formation and brand names
125. Word-formation and planned languages
126. Word-formation and sign languages
127. Word-formation and technical languages
128. Word-formation and literature
129. Word-formation and orthography
130. Word-formation and visuality
XV. Tools in word-formation research
131. Dictionaries
132. Corpora
133. Internet
