Early Middle English Word Formation

The Author: Anna Zbierska-Sawala was born in 1959. She studied English philology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. Since 1982 she has taught courses in Linguistics and the History of English. In 1989/1990 she spent ten months at Edinburgh University as a visiting research worker. She received her Ph.D. in 1991 and is now Adjunct Professor at the Institute of English at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland.

• Contents: Classification of derivational categories - Early Middle English suffixes and their functions - Basic prefixal meanings: space, time and their metaphorical extensions - Prefixes and aspect - Pleonastic prefixes in dognitive perspective - Early Middle English prefixes related to their schematic representations.