Heterogeneity in word-formation patterns: a corpus-based analysis of suffixation with -ee and its productivity in English
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Main Author: Mühleisen, Susanne 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam, the Netherlands John Benjamins Pub. Co. © 2010
Series:Studies in language companion series v. 118
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 245 pages)
ISBN:902720585X
9027288380
9789027205858
9789027288387

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