Heterogeneity in word-formation patterns
Subtitle: a corpus-based analysis of suffixation with -ee and its productivity in English
By: Susanne Mühleisen
Series: Studies in language companion series -- v. 118; Studies in language companion series -- v. 118.
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9789027205858; 9789027288387
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: List of tables and figures; title: List of abbreviations; title: Introduction: polysemy, heterogeneity and ambiguity in word-formation patterns; title: Phonological, syntactic and semantic constraints on the formation of -ee words; title: The career of -ee words: a diachronic analysis from medieval legal use to nineteenth-century ironic nonce words; title: Morphology and the lexicon: on creativity and productivity of -ee words; title: A corpus-based analysis of 1,000 potential new -ee words; title: -ee words in varieties of English.