Reflections on English Word-Formation

"Everyone is interested in words, from questions of why they mean what they mean, to whether something is a 'real' word. Looking back over a five-decade career, the author considers ways in which word-formation has been studied, raises fundamental questions, and looks for data that might help untangle old controversies"--

About the author

Laurie Bauer is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is the author of many books on linguistics, including The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology (with Lieber and Plag), which won the LSA's Leonard Bloomfield Prize. He won the Royal Society of New Zealand's Humanities medal in 2017.

Product details

• Authors: Laurie (Victoria University of Wellington) Bauer, Bauer Laurie
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2025
• EAN: 9781009559966
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0955996-6
• No. of pages: 252
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Morphology, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology