This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper focuses on the acquisition of new word formation devices in the target language as an indication of near-native competence at the ...

ONE major word-formation process in English is to use the noun itself as a verb to express the action conveyed or implied by the noun, doing this without changing the form of the noun in any way. This ...

Politics has its own register that keeps evolving as the field itself. As eras, governments, policies and personalities change, new terms emerge, boosting macro or micro vocabularies. In the case of ...

ONE major word-formation process in English is to use the noun itself as a verb to express the action conveyed or implied by the noun, but without changing in any way the form of the noun. This direct ...