Word Formation as a Naming Device - Hardcover

Ten Hacken, Pius; Panocov, Renta

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1474487017 ISBN 13: 9781474487016

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2024

Synopsis

Proposes naming as a criterion for classifying and evaluating theories of morphology

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About the Author

Pius ten Hacken is a Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Innsbruck. His research focuses on word formation, terminology and the mental lexicon. His latest monograph is Word Formation in Parallel Architecture (2019). Together with Maria Koliopoulou, he was guest editor for a special issue on New Words and Linguistic Purism of the International Journal of Lexicography (2020). His latest edited volume, co-edited with Renáta Panocová, is The Interaction of Borrowing and Word Formation (Edinburgh University Press, 2020).

Renáta Panocová is a Professor of Linguistics at the Department of British and American Studies at the Faculty of Arts of the Pavol Jozef Safárik University in Kosice. Her research focuses on word formation, language for special purposes and intercultural communication. Her latest monographs are The Vocabulary of Medical English: A Corpus-Based Study (2017) and Categories of Word Formation and Borrowing: An onomasiological account of neoclassical formations (2015). Together with Pius ten Hacken she edited The Interaction of Borrowing and Word Formation (Edinburgh University Press, 2020).

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474487017
• ISBN 13: 9781474487016
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312