Reflections on English Word Formation

Conventions and abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Part I. Basic Questions: 2. Reflections on the background to the study of word-formation; 3. Reflections on why we need word-formation; 4. Reflections on the recognition of novelty in words; 5. Reflections on blocking and competition; 6. Reflections on potential and norm; 7. Reflections on definition by stipulation and on word-class; 8. Reflections on analogical word-formation; 9. Reflections on the nature of the lexeme; Part II. Semantic Questions: 10. Reflections on how words mean and what this implies for complex words; 11. Reflections on tautology and redundancy; Part III. Syntactic Questions: 12. Reflections on recursion; 13. Reflections on problems with heads in word-formation; 14. Reflections on coordination in word-formation; Part IV. Interfaces: 15. Reflections on the interface between morphology and phonology: morphophonemics; 16. Reflections on the interface between word-formation and syntax; 17. Reflections on the interface between word-formation and phonetics; 18. Reflections on the interface between word-formation and orthography; 19. Reflections on the interface between word-formation and borrowing patterns of word-formation in English; Part V. Patterns of Word-Formation in English: 20. Reflections on the limits of conversion; 21. Reflections on back-formation; 22. Reflections on coordinative compounds; 23. Reflections on the irregularity of prepositions; 24. Reflections on reduplication; Part VI. Historical Questions: 25. Reflections on dead morphology; 26. Reflections on compounds in English and in wider Germanic; Part VII. Questions Involving Inflection: 27. Reflections on inflection inside word-formation; 28. Reflections on canonical form; 29. Reflections on the spread of regular inflection to simple and derived forms; 30. Conclusion; Indexes.