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Extra-grammatical Morphology in English : Abbreviations, Blends, Reduplicatives, and Related Phenomena.

Extra-grammatical morphology is a hitherto neglected area of research, highly marginalised because of its irregularity and unpredictability. Yet many neologisms in English are formed by means of extra-grammatical mechanisms, such as abbreviation, blending and reduplication, which therefore deserve b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mattiello, Elisa
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2013.
Colección:Topics in English Linguistics TiEL.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface; 1. Introduction; 1.1. Data; 1.1.1. Lexical status of items; 1.2. Key references; 1.3. Organisation of the work; 2. The theoretical framework; 2.1. Extra-grammatical formations in Generative Morphology; 2.2. Extra-grammatical formations in Naturalness Theory; 2.2.1. Natural Morphology; 2.2.2. Natural Phonology; 2.3. Extra-grammatical morphology; 2.3.1. Extra-grammatical vs. expressive morphology; 2.3.2. Extra-grammatical vs. marginal morphology; 2.3.3. Extra-grammatical vs. grammatical morphology; 2.3.4. Grammatically and regularity of extra-grammatical morphology.
  • 2.3.5. Extra-grammaticality and language change2.3.6. Fundamental notions; 2.3.7. Definition and properties of extra-grammatical morphology; 3. Abbreviations; 3.1. Definition, delimitation, and classification; 3.1.1. Definition of clipping; 3.1.2. Delimitation: Clipping vs. other processes; 3.1.3. Classification and structure of clippings; 3.1.4. Definition of acronyms and initialisms; 3.1.5. Delimitation: Acronyms and initialisms vs. other processes; 3.1.6. Classification of acronyms and initialisms; 3.1.7. Acronyms and initialisms: Further remarks.
  • 3.2. Abbreviations as extra-grammatical phenomena3.2.1. Irregularities in abbreviations; 3.2.2. Regularities in abbreviations; 3.2.3. Predictability in abbreviations; 3.2.4. Criteria of well-formedness; 4. Blends; 4.1. Definition, delimitation, and classification; 4.1.1. Definition and main features; 4.1.2. Delimitation: Blending vs. other processes; 4.1.3. Classification and structure of blends; 4.1.4. Blends: Further remarks; 4.2. Blending as an extra-grammatical phenomenon; 4.2.1. Irregularities in blends; 4.2.2. Regularities in blends; 4.2.3. Predictability in blends.
  • 4.2.4. Criteria of well-formedness5. Reduplicatives; 5.1. Definition, delimitation, and classification; 5.1.1. Definition; 5.1.2. Delimitation: Reduplication vs. other processes; 5.1.3. Classification and structure of reduplicatives; 5.2. Reduplication as an extra-grammatical phenomenon; 5.2.1. Irregularities in reduplicatives; 5.2.2. Regularities in reduplicatives; 5.2.3. Predictability in reduplicatives; 5.2.4. Criteria of well-formedness; 6. Minor phenomena; 6.1. Back-formation: Definition, delimitation, and classification; 6.1.1. Definition.
  • 6.1.2. Delimitation: Back-formation vs. other processes6.1.3. Classification and structure of back-formed words; 6.2. Back-formation as an extra-grammatical phenomenon; 6.2.1. Irregularities in back-formation; 6.2.2. Regularities in back-formation; 6.2.3. Predictability in back-formation; 6.2.4. Criteria of well-formedness; 6.3. Infixation: Definition, delimitation, and classification; 6.3.1. Definition; 6.3.2. Delimitation: Infixation vs. other processes; 6.3.3. Classification of infixes; 6.4. Infixation as an extra-grammatical phenomenon; 6.4.1. Irregularities in infixation.