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. |
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam, The Netherlands ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2010. |
| Description: | xii, 245 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; v. 118 Studies in language companion series ; v. 118. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7932385 |
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