This is a collection of research papers on competition in English affixation. It combines methodological chapters with descriptive chapters and incorporates both contributions by renowned international authors and also by younger researchers. The book presents diachronic and synchronic research both onomasiological and semasiological. The first three chapters review the literature and provide the theoretical framework for the experimental description of the remaining chapters.

Juan Santana Lario is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and German at the University of Granada, Spain. His main areas of research include English morphology and syntax, corpus linguistics and forensic linguistics. Salvador Valera is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and German at the University of Granada, Spain. He has undertaken publicly funded research leave in frontline Departments of several universities (Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, Leeds and Vienna) under the supervision of such renowned scholars as Prof. Laurie Bauer and Prof. Dieter Kastovsky.