Handbook of Word-Formation [electronic resource] / edited by Pavol Štekauer, Rochelle Lieber.

Basic Terminology -- Word-Formation and Phonology -- Word-Formation and Inflectional Morphology -- Word-Formation and Syntax -- Hans Marchand and the Marchandeans -- Chomsky's Remarks and the Transformationalist Hypothesis -- The Lexicalist Approach to Word-Formation and the Notion of the Lexicon -- Lexeme-Morpheme Base Morphology -- Onomasiological Approach to Word-Formation -- Cognitive Approach to Word-Formation -- Word-Formation in Natural Morphology -- Word-Formation in Optimality Theory -- Productivity: Theories -- Constraints on Productivity -- Lexicalization and Institutionalization -- English Word-Formation Processes -- The Latest Trends In English Word-Formation.

This volume, intended both for advanced students and scholars of linguistics, traces the many strands of study in the field of word formation that have developed since the seminal work of Marchand and Lees in the 1960s. In mapping the state of the art in the field of word formation, it avoids a biased approach by presenting different, but mutually complementary frameworks within which research into word formation has taken place. It covers the historical development of theories of word formation within generative grammar, and affords a solid introduction to the treatment of word formation in cognitive grammar, natural morphology, optimality theory, Lexeme Morpheme Base Morphology, onomasiological theory, and other recent frameworks. Each topic is presented by an expert who has contributed significantly to the field. In addition to surveying theoretical developments from both European and North American perspectives, it looks specifically at individual English word formation processes (derivation, compounding, conversion) and reviews some of the ways in which they have been analyzed since Marchand's comprehensive treatment nearly five decades ago.