Heterogeneity in word-formation patterns : a corpus-based analysis of suffixation with -ee and its productivity in English

Heterogeneity in word-formation patterns : a corpus-based analysis of suffixation with -ee and its productivity in English / Susanne Mühleisen.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Muehleisen, Susanne
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam, the Netherlands ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2010.
Series:Studies in language companion series ; v. 118.
Subjects:
English language > Suffixes and prefixes.
English language > Word formation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Morphology.
English language > Suffixes and prefixes
English language > Word formation
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Table of 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.

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