Stekauer's book is a highly interesting and original contribution to questions dealing with meaning predictability and word formation. The book is very well-written and provides an excellent and detailed overview of the relevant literature. Stekauers' approach will certainly stimulate new research in the field. The book will attract readers with an interest in such different fields as morphology, lexical semantics, cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics and pragmatics.

- Jan Don, University of Amsterdam,

[...] an intriguing new theoretical framework for viewing meaning predictability [...] By providing a framework that incorporates many of the factors that have previously been considered only in isolation from each other, or not at all (in case of extralinguistic knowledge), this theory makes an important contribution

- Christina L. Gagné, University of Alberta, in Language Vol. 84:3 (2008),

This book is an admirable achievement in providing its readers with an exemplary combination of theoretical and extensive empirical, experimental research. It definitely represents a model for a modern, cutting-edge, non-ideological approach to a central area of the semantics and productive WF of English vocabulary and dynamic lexicology generally, from a realistic, cognitive and dynamic perspective which can easily be applied to other languages as well. It is rooted in the best tradition of modern European and American linguistics in which theoretical hypotheses and postulates are objectively verified in linguistic reality and its function as NUs.

- Leonhard Lipka, University of Munich,