| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 245 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Studies in language companion series,
0165-7763 ;
v. 118
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Studies in language companion series ; v. 118.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English language -- Suffixes and prefixes.
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English language -- Suffixes and prefixes. |
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English language -- Word formation.
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English language -- Word formation. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Muehleisen, Susanne. Heterogeneity in word-formation patterns. Amsterdam, The Netherlands ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2010 9789027205858 (DLC) 2009050675 (OCoLC)476362325 |
| ISBN |
9789027288387 (electronic book) |
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9027288380 (electronic book) |
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902720585X (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9789027205858 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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1282558609 |
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9781282558601 |
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9789027205858 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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