Cover -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Literature survey -- 1.1. General -- 1.2. The morphological tradition -- 1.2.1. Lees -- 1.2.2. Levi -- 1.2.3. Van Lint -- 1.2.4. Zimmer -- 1.2.5. Downing -- 1.2.6. Allen -- 1.3. Basic psycholinguistic models -- 1.3.1. Slot-filling models -- 1.3.2. Relation models -- 1.3.3. Analogy-based models -- 1.3.4. Combined and other models -- 1.3.5. Non-compound interpretation models -- 1.4. Summary -- 2. General word formation framework -- 2.1. An onomasiological model of word formation -- 2.2. Onomasiological Types -- 3. A theory of predictability -- 3.1. Why context-free meaning predictability? -- 3.2. Predictability -- lexical meaning -- conceptualisation -- extra-linguistic knowledge -- 3.3. Predictability and the native/non-native speaker factor -- 3.4. Predictability and seme level -- 3.5. The meaning-prediction process -- 3.5.1. Predictability and the Onomasiological Type -- 3.6. Onomasiological Structure Rules -- 3.7. Predictability and productivity -- 3.8. Predictability and typicality -- 3.9. Predictability Rate -- 3.10. Objectified Predictability Rate -- 3.11. Hypotheses -- 4. The Experiments -- 4.1. Method -- 4.2. Experiment 1 -- 4.2.1. Sample naming units -- 4.2.2. Experimental data and their analysis -- 4.2.3. Summary 1 -- 4.3. Experiment 2 -- 4.3.1. Sample naming units -- 4.3.2. Experimental data and their analysis -- 4.3.3. Summary 2 -- 4.4. Experiment 3 -- 4.4.1. Sample naming units -- 4.4.2. Experimental data and their analysis -- 4.4.3. Summary 3 -- 4.5. Experiment 4 -- 4.5.1. Sample naming units -- 4.5.2. Experimental data and their analysis -- 4.5.3. Discussion -- 4.5.4. Summary 4 -- 4.6. Meaning predictability and associative meaning: The experimental results in the light of free association of words -- 4.6.1. Meaning predictability of conversions and the associative principle -- 4.6.2. Summary 5 -- 4.6.3. Meaning predictability of two-constituent naming units and the associative principle -- 4.6.4. Summary 6 -- 5. Conclusions -- 5.1. General -- 5.2. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Author index -- Subject index -- The series Studies In Functional And Structural Linguistics.