The Interaction of Borrowing and Word Formation

Pius ten Hacken is a Professor and Chair in the Department of Translation Studies at Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck. Pius has authored and contributed to several books and journals. He is author of Chomskyan Linguistics and its Competitors (Equinox, 2007), editor of The Semantics of Compounding (CUP, 2016), and co-editor of Word Formation and Transparency in Medical English (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2015) and The Semantics of Word Formation and Lexicalization (EUP, 2013).

Renáta Panocová studied English and Russian in Presov (Slovakia), then did a PhD in linguistics with specialization in Slavic Studies and Slavic languages. She completed her Habilitation at Faculty of Arts, Pavol Jozef Safárik University in Kosice. She is the author of Categories of Word Formation and Borrowing: An Onomasiological Account of Neoclassical Formations, (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015) and The Vocabulary of Medical English: A Corpus-based Study (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2017), and is co-author with Pius ten Hacken of Word Formation and Transparency in Medical English (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2015).