Abstract
Morphological productivity (roughly: the readiness with which a word formation process forms new words) has long been one of the central mysteries of morphology. There are many detailed qualitative descriptions of word formation processes that list the restrictions for the possible bases for an affix (like the restriction that -able attaches to verbs in English) or the restrictions on a given compounding process (like the fact that noun-noun compounding in German is recursive while noun-verb compounding is not). Most of these works are not concerned with productivity or equate productivity simply with type frequency (see for example the standard descriptive works for German word formation Kuhnhold, Putzer & Wellmann 1978, Fleischer & Barz 1992).
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