Paradigms in word formation : theory and applications The focus of Paradigms in Word Formation: Theory and applications is on the relevance of paradigms for linguistic description. Paradigmatic organization has traditionally been considered an inherent feature of inflectional morphology but research in the last decades clearly shows the existence of paradigms in word formation especially in affixal derivation often at the expense of other word formation processes. This volume seeks to address the role that paradigms may play in the description of compounding conversion and participles. This volume should be of interest to anyone specialized in the field of English morphology and word formation