R. S. Ginzburg, S. S. Khidekel, G. Y. Knyazeva, A. A. Sankin a course in modern english

V. WORD-FORMATION

Various Ways of Forming Words

§ 1. Various Types and Ways of Forming Words 108

§ 2. Word-Formation. Definition» Basic Peculiarities 109

§ 3. Word-Formation as the Subject of Study . . 111

§ 4. Productivity of Word-Formation Means 112

§ 5. Summary and Conclusions 114

Affixation

§ 6. Definition. Degree of Derivation. Prefixal and Suffixal Derivatives 114

§ 7. Prefixation. Some Debatable Problems 115

§ 8. Classification of Prefixes ..... 117

§ 9. Suffixation. Peculiarities of Some Suffixes 119

§ 10. Main Principles of Classification 120

§ 11. Polysemy and Homonymy 121

§ 12. Synonymy 122

§ 13. Productivity 123

§ 14. Origin of derivational affixes 125

§ 15. Summary and Conclusions . 126

Conversion

§ 16. Definition 127

§ 17. Synchronic Approach 130

§ 18. Typical Semantic Relations 131

§ 19. Basic Criteria of Semantic Derivation 133

§ 20. Diachronic Approach of Conversion. Origin 136

§ 21. Productivity. Traditional and Occasional Conversion. ...... 138

§ 22. Conversion and Sound-(Stress-) Interchange 139

§ 23. Summary and Conclusions . . . 140