Complex Words

A state-of-the-art survey of complex words this volume brings together a team of leading international morphologists to demonstrate the wealth and breadth of the study of word-formation. Encompassing methodological empirical and theoretical approaches each chapter presents the results of cutting-edge research into linguistic complexity including lexico-semantic aspects of complex words the structure of complex words and corpus-based case studies. Drawing on examples from a wide range of languages it covers both general aspects of word-formation and aspects specific to particular languages such as English French Greek Basque Spanish German and Slovak. Theoretical considerations are supported by a number of in-depth case studies focusing on the role of affixes as well as word-formation processes such as compounding affixation and conversion. Attention is also devoted to typological issues in word-formation. The book will be an invaluable resource for academic researchers and graduate students interested in morphology linguistic typology and corpus linguistics.