Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Syntheticity and analyticity in the lexicon -- 3. The framework: Suffixation and conceptual categories -- 4. The corpus & methodology -- 5. Category 1: Person -- 6. Category 2: Object -- 7. Category 3: Location -- 8. Category 4: Action -- 9. Category 5: Abstract -- 10. The development of Old English noun suffixes -- 11. The typological change of English word-formation -- 12. Derivation and inflection: A typological perspective -- 13. Noun formation after the early ME period -- 14. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Subject index