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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- List of tables and figures
- List of abbreviations
- 1. Introduction: polysemy, heterogeneity and ambiguity in word-formation patterns
- 2. Phonological, syntactic and semantic constraints on the formation of -ee words
- 3. The career of -ee words: a diachronic analysis from medieval legal use to nineteenth-century ironic nonce words
- 4. Morphology and the lexicon: on creativity and productivity of -ee words
- 5. A corpus-based analysis of 1,000 potential new -ee words
- 6.-ee words in varieties of English
- Works cited
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2.