Description:
Drawing on detailed case studies across a range of languages, including English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Russian, Lithuanian and Greek, this book examines the different factors that determine the outcome of the interaction between borrowing and word formation.
Brief description: Pius ten Hacken is a Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Innsbruck. His research focuses on word formation, terminology and the mental lexicon. His latest monograph is Word Formation in Parallel Architecture (2019). Together with Maria Koliopoulou, he was guest editor for a special issue on New Words and Linguistic Purism of the International Journal of Lexicography (2020). His latest edited volume, co-edited with Renáta Panocová, is The Interaction of Borrowing and Word Formation (Edinburgh University Press, 2020).