Extra-grammatical Morphology in English : Abbreviations, Blends, Reduplicatives, and Related Phenomena.

Extra-grammatical morphology is a hitherto neglected area of research, highly marginalised because of its irregularity and unpredictability. Yet many neologisms in English are formed by means of extra-grammatical mechanisms, such as abbreviation, blending and reduplication, which therefore deserve b...

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Main Author: Mattiello, Elisa
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2013.
Series:Topics in English Linguistics TiEL.
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