On concatenative and nonconcatenative lexeme-formation patterns in English

Abstract

The paper borrows the concept of (non)concatenation from morphology and applies it to wordformation patterns both within and outside the scope of derivational morphology, arguing at the same time for a broader, lexicological approach to lexeme-formation (as a model of vocabulary expansion) than that identifying word-formation with derivational morphology. It arrives at the conclusion that the binary division of lexeme-formation into either concatenative or nonconcatenative patterns does not reflect the character of many patterns accurately enough.

Keywords

• word-formation
• derivational morphology
• lexeme-formation pattern
• concatenative
• nonconcatenative