The Categories and Types of Present-day English Word-formation: A Synchronic-diachronic Approach

ablaut adjectival adjectives adjs adverbs agent nouns allomorph American English analysable bahuvrihi basis of coining belong Biese character chiefly coinages combinations common compounds connected counterparts cpds deadjectival denominal determinatum developed deverbal sbs dial double stress elements English words Examples exist exocentric expressive first-word forestress formations frequent German Germanic languages Greek hypocoristic imitative independent word instance Jesp Jespersen L words language later linguistic loans from French locative particles main stress meaning Middle English middle stress morpheme morphological native basis Neo-Latin nouns nuance occur older onomatopoeia orig origin parasynthetic participles perh personal sbs phemes phonetic preadjunctal preceding prefix prob productive recent recorded resp rime runabout second-word semantic sense sound spelling stem stress pattern subjunct substantival substantives suffix syllable symbol syntactic group tacked tendency underlying variant verbal verbs vowel word-formation words denoting zero morpheme