R. M. W. Dixon is Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University. He has published grammars of a number of Australian languages (including Dyirbal and Yidiñ), in addition to A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian (University of Chicago Press, 1988), The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia (OUP, 2004; paperback 2011) and A Semantic Approach to English Grammar (Oxford University Press, 2005). He is also the author of the three volume work Basic Linguistic Theory (OUP, 2010-12) and his book Edible Gender will be published by OUP in 2015.

Every teacher and student of English linguistics should possess this excellent book ... a truly monumental work.

• 1. Preliminaries ; 2. How to make new words ; 3. Criteria - affixes, semi-affixes, and compounds ; 4. What we describe ; 5. Un-expected, mis-judged, dis-organized counter-revolution: Making negative words ; 6. Ultra-patriotic, extra-special, pre-election pseudo-promise: Keeping the same word class ; 7. Be-feather, smart-en, em-power, beauti-fy, moral-ize: Making new verbs ; 8. Moon-like, death-ly, angr-y, mysteri-ous, memor-able: Making new adjectives ; 9. Eager-ness, bidd-ing, pay-ment, owner-ship, satisf-action: Making new nouns ; 10. Carefully, sideways, homewards, crab-fashion: Making new adverbs ; 11. Un-relent-less-ly de-west-ern-iz-ing non-mean-ing-ful infra-structures: Combining affixes ; 12. Envoi: the way of words ; Appendix 1: List of adjective and verb semantic types, with sample members ; Appendix 2: Alphabetical directory of adjective and verbs in the list of semantic types ; Glossary ; References

R. M. W. Dixon is Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University. He has published grammars of a number of Australian languages (including Dyirbal and Yidiñ), in addition to A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian (University of Chicago Press, 1988), The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia (OUP, 2004; paperback 2011) and A Semantic Approach to English Grammar (Oxford University Press, 2005). He is also the author of the three volume work Basic Linguistic Theory (OUP, 2010-12) and his book Edible Gender will be published by OUP in 2015.

Every teacher and student of English linguistics should possess this excellent book ... a truly monumental work.

• 1. Preliminaries ; 2. How to make new words ; 3. Criteria - affixes, semi-affixes, and compounds ; 4. What we describe ; 5. Un-expected, mis-judged, dis-organized counter-revolution: Making negative words ; 6. Ultra-patriotic, extra-special, pre-election pseudo-promise: Keeping the same word class ; 7. Be-feather, smart-en, em-power, beauti-fy, moral-ize: Making new verbs ; 8. Moon-like, death-ly, angr-y, mysteri-ous, memor-able: Making new adjectives ; 9. Eager-ness, bidd-ing, pay-ment, owner-ship, satisf-action: Making new nouns ; 10. Carefully, sideways, homewards, crab-fashion: Making new adverbs ; 11. Un-relent-less-ly de-west-ern-iz-ing non-mean-ing-ful infra-structures: Combining affixes ; 12. Envoi: the way of words ; Appendix 1: List of adjective and verb semantic types, with sample members ; Appendix 2: Alphabetical directory of adjective and verbs in the list of semantic types ; Glossary ; References

R. M. W. Dixon is Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University. He has published grammars of a number of Australian languages (including Dyirbal and Yidiñ), in addition to A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian (University of Chicago Press, 1988), The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia (OUP, 2004; paperback 2011) and A Semantic Approach to English Grammar (Oxford University Press, 2005). He is also the author of the three volume work Basic Linguistic Theory (OUP, 2010-12) and his book Edible Gender will be published by OUP in 2015.

Every teacher and student of English linguistics should possess this excellent book ... a truly monumental work.

• 1. Preliminaries ; 2. How to make new words ; 3. Criteria - affixes, semi-affixes, and compounds ; 4. What we describe ; 5. Un-expected, mis-judged, dis-organized counter-revolution: Making negative words ; 6. Ultra-patriotic, extra-special, pre-election pseudo-promise: Keeping the same word class ; 7. Be-feather, smart-en, em-power, beauti-fy, moral-ize: Making new verbs ; 8. Moon-like, death-ly, angr-y, mysteri-ous, memor-able: Making new adjectives ; 9. Eager-ness, bidd-ing, pay-ment, owner-ship, satisf-action: Making new nouns ; 10. Carefully, sideways, homewards, crab-fashion: Making new adverbs ; 11. Un-relent-less-ly de-west-ern-iz-ing non-mean-ing-ful infra-structures: Combining affixes ; 12. Envoi: the way of words ; Appendix 1: List of adjective and verb semantic types, with sample members ; Appendix 2: Alphabetical directory of adjective and verbs in the list of semantic types ; Glossary ; References