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
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Company
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789027205858; 9789027288387
Subjects: English language -- Suffixes and prefixes; English language -- Word formation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: List of tables and figures; title: List of abbreviations; title: 1. Introduction: polysemy, heterogeneity and ambiguity in word-formation patterns; title: 2. Phonological, syntactic and semantic constraints on the formation of -ee words; title: 3. The career of -ee words: a diachronic analysis from medieval legal use to nineteenth-century ironic nonce words; title: 4. Morphology and the lexicon: on creativity and productivity of -ee words; title: 5. A corpus-based analysis of 1,000 potential new -ee words; title: 6. -ee words in varieties of English; title: Works cited; title: Appendix 1; title: Appendix 2.