Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Abbreviations and symbols X
5. 1. Introduction 1
6. 2. Productivity: Definitions and measurements 5
7. 3. Restrictions on productivity 37
8. 4. The combinability of derivational suffixes 63
9. 5. Rival morphological processes 1: The productivity of verb-deriving processes 93
10. 6. Rival morphological processes 2: The structural properties of -ize derivatives 119
11. 7. Rival morphological processes 3: The structural properties of other verb-deriving processes 195
12. 8. Rival morphological processes 4: Where have all the rivals gone? 227
13. 9. Conclusion 243
14. References 245
15. Appendix 1: 20th century neologisms from the OED 271
16. Appendix 2: Hapax legomena from the Cobuild corpus 279
17. Author index 281
18. Subject index 285
19. Affix index 289