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English Complex Words
Exercises in construction and translation
English Complex Words is a lively, essential companion for multilingual explorations of word-formation processes, both in English and across 40 other languages. It offers today’s broadest available coverage of English prefixation, suffixation and compounding. Comprising a treasury of real language items, this book offers students a unique chance to conduct their own research and analyses, using a goldmine of carefully-selected authentic examples and corpus data. Readers will become familiar with 96 affixes and 13 compound types by working through thought-provoking morphological cases and their construction patterns. Through these challenging and hands-on activities, junior researchers identify morphological nuances among multiple languages. Instructors in multilingual classrooms can find satisfying activities to address the needs of international students. This academically stimulating coursebook can serve as a core text for Word Formation and Morphology courses. As a supplemental source, it may suit a range of Linguistics courses directed at both graduate and undergraduate students.
[Not in series, 242] 2023. xi, 392 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 5 June 2023
Published online on 5 June 2023
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- List of abbreviations | pp. xii–8
- Acknowledgements | pp. xiii–xv
- Introduction | pp. 1–6
- Chapter I. Prefixation | pp. 7–140
- Chapter II. Suffixation | pp. 141–346
- Chapter III. Compounding | pp. 347–380
- Glossary of terms and concepts | pp. 381–385
- References | pp. 386–390
- Index of languages (alphabetical) | pp. 391–392
“English Complex Words is a useful resource that succeeds in weaving together morphological reasoning, contrastive analysis, and digital literacy within a cohesive pedagogical framework. The volume is likely to be welcomed in morphology courses, TESOL programs, and translation training contexts. For researchers, the volume also raises valuable questions about how morphological competence develops, how learners draw on cross-linguistic comparisons, and how data-driven tasks can complement more traditional rule-based instruction.[...]Twardzisz offers a resource that is empirically rich, pedagogically versatile, andresponsive to the multilingual realities of contemporary language learning.”
Elizaveta Tarasova, English Teaching College, Palmerston North, in Tesolanz Journal, Vol. 33 (2025)