Bauer: English Word-Formation
Summary: English Word-Formation by Bauer (Cambridge University Press (1983)). (Stub — expand from highlights.)
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Language Structure
“Interest in word-formation is probably as old as interest in language itself… many of the questions that scholars are asking now were also being asked in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.” (p. 1)
Categorization
“The distinction between a word-form and a lexeme is vital for a clear understanding of the way in which language is organized.” (p. 11)