Alexander Tokar, born in 1980 in Kursk (Russia), is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Düsseldorf (Germany). He obtained his doctoral degree in English linguistics from the University of Düsseldorf in December 2008 with a dissertation on Metaphors of the Web 2.0 (published by Peter Lang in 2009). His main research interests are morphology, phraseology, semantics and pragmatics, phonetics and phonology, and cognitive linguistics.

• Contents: The Distribution of Morphs – Morphemes as Signs – The Segmentation of Words into Morphemes – Affixes Versus Roots – Isomorphic and Anisomorphic Lexemes – Word-Formation – Lexeme-Formation versus Lex-Formation – The Establishment of New Lexemes – Semantic Change – Lexeme-Manufacturing – Borrowing – Affixation – Apophony – Compounding – Blending – Back-Formation – Inflectional Morphology – Grammatical Categories.

Alexander Tokar, born in 1980 in Kursk (Russia), is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Düsseldorf (Germany). He obtained his doctoral degree in English linguistics from the University of Düsseldorf in December 2008 with a dissertation on Metaphors of the Web 2.0 (published by Peter Lang in 2009). His main research interests are morphology, phraseology, semantics and pragmatics, phonetics and phonology, and cognitive linguistics.

• Contents: The Distribution of Morphs – Morphemes as Signs – The Segmentation of Words into Morphemes – Affixes Versus Roots – Isomorphic and Anisomorphic Lexemes – Word-Formation – Lexeme-Formation versus Lex-Formation – The Establishment of New Lexemes – Semantic Change – Lexeme-Manufacturing – Borrowing – Affixation – Apophony – Compounding – Blending – Back-Formation – Inflectional Morphology – Grammatical Categories.

Alexander Tokar, born in 1980 in Kursk (Russia), is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Düsseldorf (Germany). He obtained his doctoral degree in English linguistics from the University of Düsseldorf in December 2008 with a dissertation on Metaphors of the Web 2.0 (published by Peter Lang in 2009). His main research interests are morphology, phraseology, semantics and pragmatics, phonetics and phonology, and cognitive linguistics.

• Contents: The Distribution of Morphs – Morphemes as Signs – The Segmentation of Words into Morphemes – Affixes Versus Roots – Isomorphic and Anisomorphic Lexemes – Word-Formation – Lexeme-Formation versus Lex-Formation – The Establishment of New Lexemes – Semantic Change – Lexeme-Manufacturing – Borrowing – Affixation – Apophony – Compounding – Blending – Back-Formation – Inflectional Morphology – Grammatical Categories.