{"product_id":"productivity-in-english-word-formation","title":"Productivity in English Word-formation","description":"This book is a contribution to the study of morphological productivity, that is, the property of word-formation processes whereby new words are created to satisfy a naming need. It presents an up-to-date picture of this phenomenon, characterising its major attributes and addressing neighbouring theoretical concepts like \u003ci\u003eavailability, profitability\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003elexicalisation\u003c\/i\u003e. Links are also established between those notions and N+N compounding, a word-formation process regarded as very productive but traditionally overlooked in studies of this type. Unlike other productivity surveys, mostly directed at affixation, a corpus of N+N compounds is here compiled to which the mainstream models of productivity are applied. This allows to detect the pros and cons of those proposals and to propose a model of productivity. Two measures, \u003ci\u003eIndicator of Profitability\u003c\/i\u003e (π) and \u003ci\u003eTrend of Profitability\u003c\/i\u003e (Π), are introduced which can be applied across word-formation processes and are able to compute their productivity based on semantic categories.","brand":"Verlag Peter Lang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54260038009176,"sku":"9783039118083","price":62.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9783039118083.jpg?v=1777828524","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/productivity-in-english-word-formation","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}