Word formation in English

By Joakim Adilsson. 2005

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Prefix combinations in English: structural and processing factors (2010, methodology): “This is done with the help of information on the structural and semantic characteristics of the 15 prefixes under investigation, available in the pertinent literature on word formation (e.g. Marchand 1969; Adams 2001; Plag 2003; Stein 2007).”
The English compound stress myth (2009, background): “And not only the generalizations but in some cases even the examples themselves have been handed down from author to author, from theory to theory, from the research literature to textbook treatments such as Giegerich (1992) and Plag (2003).”
Homophony and morphology: The acoustics of word-final S in English 1 (2015, background): “The different types of mapping are responsible for various morpho-phonological alternations (such as assimilation or resyllabification; see Plag (2003) for an introductory treatment and exemplification).”
Suffix Ordering and Morphological Processing (2009, background): “…are derived from pertinent reference works on this question, such as Jespersen (1942), Marchand (1969), Bauer (1983), Adams (2001), Plag (2003), but also more specialized treatments on individual suffixes, such as Barker (1998), Ryder (1999), Dalton-Puffer & Plag (2000), Malkiel…”