R. M. W Dixon (Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director of the Languag

Gebundenes Buch

Making New Words: Morphological Derivation in English

Beschreibung

This book provides a detailed study of around 200 English prefixes and suffixes. Each affix is discussed in detail, with information on its origin, phonological form, stress placement, semantic range, and the roots it can be attached to. It will be a valuable text for those studying English language and linguistics from undergraduate level upwards

Autor

R. M. W. Dixon is Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University. He has published grammars of a number of Australian languages (including Dyirbal and Yidiñ), in addition to A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian (University of Chicago Press, 1988), The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia (OUP, 2004; paperback 2011) and A Semantic Approach to English Grammar (Oxford University Press, 2005). He is also the author of the three volume work Basic Linguistic Theory (OUP, 2010-12) and his book Edible Gender will be published by OUP in 2015.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• New
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 174mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 952g
• ISBN-13: 9780198712367
• ISBN-10: 0198712367
• Artikelnr.: 40876502