摘要：The aim of this journal article is to study recursivity in terms of morphological process
feeding in the formation of Old English, thus dealing with the relationship that holds
among the major lexical creation processes of affixation (suffixation and prefixation),
compounding and zero-derivation. The analysis is based on the ascription of each of
the predicates to one of the morphological processes and the identification of the base
and adjunct constituents of each complex predicate. Two main conclusions can be
drawn from this research. First, that no relative ordering of processes can be
established, and second, that recursive word-formation in Old English outnumbers
non-recursive word-formation.
关键词：Morphology, Word Formation, Old English, Recursivity, Process Feeding
