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

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Author / Creator:	Muehleisen, Susanne.
Imprint:	Amsterdam, the Netherlands ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2010.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 245 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; v. 118 Studies in language companion series ; v. 118.
Subject:	English language -- Suffixes and prefixes. English language -- Word formation. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Morphology. English language -- Suffixes and prefixes. English language -- Word formation. Electronic books. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11213751

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ISBN:	9789027288387 9027288380 902720585X 9789027205858 1282558609 9781282558601 9789027205858 9786612558603 6612558601
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes. English. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Muehleisen, Susanne. Heterogeneity in word-formation patterns. Amsterdam, The Netherlands ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2010 9789027205858

Table of Contents:

1. Acknowledgments
2. List of tables and figures
3. List of abbreviations
4. Chapter 1. Introduction
5. Chapter 2. Phonological, syntactic and semantic constraints on the formation of -ee words
6. Chapter 3. The career of -ee words
7. Chapter 4. Morphology and the lexicon
8. Chapter 5. A corpus-based analysis of 1,000 potential new -ee words
9. Chapter 6. -ee words in varieties of English
10. Conclusion. On the study of an individual word-formation pattern
11. Works cited
12. Appendix 1. Documentation of established -ee words with their citation sources
13. Appendix 2. Quantitative analysis of 1,000 potential -ee words (Web-search, February-June 2005)
14. Name index
15. Subject index

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