Author: Wolfgang Motsch, Institute for German Language, Mannheim, Germany
Hardback: ISBN: 311018205X Pages: xi, 458 Price: Europe EURO 88.00 Comment: published by Walter de Gruyter
Paperback: ISBN: 3110180243 Pages: xi, 458 Price: Europe EURO 34.95
Abstract:
The book describes the most important patterns for the analysis and
creation of German derivations and compounds. Word formation patterns are
viewed as rules belonging to the lexicon of a language that include all the
systematic syntactic, semantic morphological and phonological information
necessary for using complex words. The focus is on semantic patterns, which
describe the possibilities of the semantic change of primary words from
derivations and compounds.
Wolfgang Motsch works at the Institute for German Language, Mannheim, Germany.
Language of publication: German
Date of publication: 10/2004