Table of Contents

1: Preliminaries 2: How to make new words 3: Criteria - affixes, semi-affixes, and compounds 4: What we describe 5: Un-expected, mis-judged, dis-organized counter-revolution: Making negative words 6: Ultra-patriotic, extra-special, pre-election pseudo-promise: Keeping the same word class 7: Be-feather, smart-en, em-power, beauti-fy, moral-ize: Making new verbs 8: Moon-like, death-ly, angr-y, mysteri-ous, memor-able: Making new adjectives 9: Eager-ness, bidd-ing, pay-ment, owner-ship, satisf-action: Making new nouns 10: Carefully, sideways, homewards, crab-fashion: Making new adverbs 11: Un-relent-less-ly de-west-ern-iz-ing non-mean-ing-ful infra-structures: Combining affixes 12: Envoi: the way of words Appendix 1: List of adjective and verb semantic types, with sample members Appendix 2: Alphabetical directory of adjective and verbs in the list of semantic types Glossary References

About the Author

R. M. W. Dixon is Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University. He has published grammars of a number of Australian languages (including Dyirbal and Yidiñ), in addition to A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian (University of Chicago Press, 1988), The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia (OUP, 2004; paperback 2011) and A Semantic Approach to English Grammar (Oxford University Press, 2005). He is also the author of the three volume work Basic Linguistic Theory (OUP, 2010-12) and his book Edible Gender will be published by OUP in 2015.

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Every teacher and student of English linguistics should possess this excellent book ... a truly monumental work.
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