Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Contents -- I. Word-formation as a linguistic discipline -- 1. The scope of word-formation research -- 2. Word-formation research from its beginnings to the 19th century -- 3. Word-formation in historical-comparative grammar -- 4. Word-formation in structuralism -- 5. Word-formation in inhaltbezogene Grammatik -- 6. Word-formation in onomasiology -- 7. Word-formation in generative grammar -- 8. Word-formation in categorial grammar -- 9. Word-formation in natural morphology -- 10. Word-formation in cognitive grammar -- 11. Word-formation in optimality theory -- 12. Word-formation in construction grammar -- 13. Word-formation in psycholinguistics and neurocognitive research -- II. Units and processes in word-formation I: General aspects -- 14. The delimitation of derivation and inflection -- 15. Units of word-formation -- 16. Derivation -- 17. Conversion -- 18. Backformation -- 19. Clipping -- 20. Composition -- 21. Blending -- 22. Incorporation -- 23. Particle-verb formation -- 24. Multi-word expressions -- 25. Reduplication -- 26. Word-creation -- 27. Allomorphy -- III. Units and processes in word-formation II: Special cases -- 28. Affective palatalization in Basque -- 29. Parasynthesis in Romance -- 30. Affix pleonasm -- 31. Interfixes in Romance -- 32. Linking elements in Germanic -- 33. Synthetic compounds in German -- 34. Verbal pseudo-compounds in German -- 35. Particle verbs in Germanic -- 36. Particle verbs in Romance -- 37. Particle verbs in Hungarian -- 38. Noun-noun compounds in French -- 39. Verb-noun compounds in Romance -- 40. Co-compounds -- 41. Multi-word units in French -- 42. Multi-word expressions and univerbation in Slavic -- 43. Compounds and multi-word expressions in Slavic -- 44. Paradigmatically determined allomorphy: the "participial stem" from Latin to Italian