Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of figures vii
4. List of tables ix
5. 1 Word formation, meaning and lexicalization 1
6. 2 Semiproductivity and the place of word formation in grammar 28
7. 3 Lexicalization in Generative Morphology and Conceptual Structure 45
8. 4 Term formation in a special language: how do words specify scientific concepts? 66
9. 5 Nominal compounds as naming devices: a comparison of English and Polish land surveying terminology 83
10. 6 Semantic and formal structure: a corpus-based study of Swedish NN compounds and their French counterparts 102
11. 7 The semantics of lexical modification: meaning and meaning relations in German A+N compounds 121
12. 8 Semantic transparency and anaphoric islands 140
13. 9 Semantic coindexation: evidence from Portuguese derivation and compounding 161
14. 10 Deverbal nominalizations in English: an LMBM approach 180
15. 11 Degrees of lexicalization in Ancient Greek deverbal nouns 203
16. 12 How many factors influence the meaning of denominal and deadjectival verbs? The case of Modern Greek verbs in -( ι)άζω 225
17. 13 Analysing en- and its Romance equivalents in Jackendoff’s Conceptual Structure 247
18. 14 Semantics of diminutivization: evidence from Russian 266
19. Notes on contributors 286
20. Bibliography 290
21. Author index 309
22. Subject index 315