Abstract
As Packard notes in the preface to this volume, Chinese is a language with “no grammatical agreement, little morphophonemic alternation and no inflection” (p.xii), so one might be tempted to ask: why a nearly 400-page book on Chinese word formation? In fact, as the contributors to this volume amply demonstrate, there is no question that Chinese has morphologically complex words; indeed, it has had them for many millenia. And there is likewise no doubt that the formation of morphologically complex words is, again as Packard notes, both “interesting and worth investigating”.
I thank Chilin Shih for a number of useful comments on this review.
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Sproat, R. (1999). Review of Packard (1998): New approaches to Chinese word formation . In: Booij, G., van Marle, J. (eds) Yearbook of Morphology 1998. Yearbook of Morphology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3720-3_11
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