On the publication of the five-volume edition of word-formation: An international handbook of the languages of Europe

Abstract

All the volumes of the publication Word-Formation: An International Handbook of the Languages of Europe can be useful to an internationalisation of the discipline of word-formation and can raise new theoretical and methodological questions, finding alternative solutions (including a critical appraisal of certain views or a new evaluation of the existent approaches). In any case, the survey of research published in several countries, foregrounding certain theories and methodologies and their possible limitations by the languages that form its subject-matter, and in general, a broad spectrum of open questions may also be stimulating to a new view of the languages under scrutiny. Besides, those volumes offer an abundance of material for future comparative studies of both theoretical aspects and their application in studying matters of word-formation and usage, also including those based on the material from the languages that are not (closely) related.

Keywords

• European languages
• word formation as a linguistic discipline
• formative units
• formative processes