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

19th century ablaut adjectival adjectives Adverbial Complement agent noun agent substantives allomorphs American English analysable animal bahuvrihi basic basis of coining belong binations character chiefly clipping common composite compounds connected copula deadjectival determinatum deverbal substantives dial double stress English coinages English period English words Examples expressed first-word forestress formations free morphemes German girl grammatical Greek imitation instance Jespersen language later lexical linguistic loans from French locative particles meaning Medieval Latin Middle English middle stress Modern English morphologic native basis Neo-Latin nominal nouns object obsolete occur Old English Old French originally parallel personal substantives pheme preadjunctal preceding Predicate prefix Present-day English probably productive recent recorded represented rime second element second-word semantic sense sound stem stress pattern substantival suffix suffixal derivatives syllable symbol syntactic group syntactic relations syntagma tion transitive verbs vowel Willis Russell word-formation words denoting zero morpheme