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Heterogeneity in word-formation patterns : a corpus-based analysis of suffixation with -ee and its productivity in English /
Postulated word-formation rules often exclude formations that can nevertheless be found in actual usage. This book presents an in-depth investigation of a highly heterogeneous word-formation pattern in English: the formation of nouns by suffixation with -ee. Rather than relying on a single semantic...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam, the Netherlands ; Philadelphia, PA :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Studies in language companion series ;
v. 118. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Postulated word-formation rules often exclude formations that can nevertheless be found in actual usage. This book presents an in-depth investigation of a highly heterogeneous word-formation pattern in English: the formation of nouns by suffixation with -ee. Rather than relying on a single semantic or syntactic framework for analysis, the study combines diachronic, cognitive and language-contact perspectives in order to explain the diversity in the formation and establishment of -ee words. It also seeks to challenge previous measurements of productivity and proposes a new way to investigate th. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 245 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027288387 9027288380 902720585X 9789027205858 1282558609 9781282558601 9786612558603 6612558601 |
| ISSN: | 0165-7763 ; |