The pioneering new study presents an interdisciplinary examination of how we use creativity to form and interpret new words.

This book aims to contribute to a growing interest amongst psycholinguists and morphologists in the mechanisms of meaning predictability. It presents a brand-ne

This textbook provides an accessible introduction to the study of word-formation, that is, the ways in which new words are built on the bases of other words (e.

The coining of novel lexical items and the creative manipulation of existing words and expressions is heavily dependent on contextual factors, including the sem

This study of reduplication in Afrikaans sheds new light on fundamental lexicalist principles of word formation.