The book describes the most important patterns for the analysis and creation of German derivations and compounds. Word formation patterns are viewed as rules belonging to the lexicon of a language that include all the systematic syntactic, semantic morphological and phonological information necessary for using complex words. The focus is on semantic patterns, which describe the possibilities of the semantic change of primary words from derivations and compounds.

Autorentext

Wolfgang Motsch war Leiter der Arbeitsstelle Strukturelle Grammatik, danach des Bereichs Grammatik und Semantik des Zentralinstituts für Sprachwissenschaft der Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR, nach der Wende Mitarbeiter des Instituts für Deutsche Sprache in Mannheim.