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SUBJECT INDEX
Abbreviation 142-145
Ablaut combinations 130
Ablaut or vowel gradation 146
Abstracted forms 106, 218, 219
Acronyms 142-145, 218
Adaptive system 10ff, 21, 143, 216ff: see System, lexical adaptive
System, lexical or vocabulary 10ff, 38, 152, 182ff, 215
System, lexical adaptive 10ff, 21, 216
Technical terms and terminology 229-233 Telescoping and portmanteau words 141 Thematic groups 226ff Transformations, explanatory 59, 192 Transposition 153, 163
Ultimate constituents 81, 84
Umlaut 146
Understatement: see Litotes Uninterruptability 29, 30 Unities, phraseological 170ff
Valency 24, 90-95, 195, 200 Variants or regional varieties 262ff
Verbal collocations of the ?giveup' type 120, 121, 161, 206
Vowel gradation 146 Vowel mutation 146
Word, definition of 27-31 Word equivalents 9, 20, 167 Word-family 77ff, 222 Word-formation analysis 81ff Word-formation, types of 163