TY - BOOK AU - Juan Santana-Lario AU - Salvador Valera-Hernández PY - 2017 CY - Lausanne, Switzerland PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 1424-8689 SN - 9783034326988 TI - Competing Patterns in English Affixation DO - 10.3726/b10608 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1055047 N2 - This is a collection of research papers on competition in English affixation. It combines methodological chapters with descriptive chapters and incorporates both contributions by renowned international authors and also by younger researchers. The book presents diachronic and synchronic research both onomasiological and semasiological. The first three chapters review the literature and provide the theoretical framework for the experimental description of the remaining chapters. KW - affixation, competition, English, onomasiological, semasiological, diachronic, synchronic LA - English ER -