Overview

Postulated word-formation rules often exclude formations that can nevertheless be found in actual usage. This book presents an investigation of a heterogeneous word-formation pattern in English: the formation of nouns by suffixation with -ee. It explains the diversity in the formation and establishment of -ee words.

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Author:   Susanne Mühleisen (University of Bayreuth)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   118
Weight:   0.620kg
ISBN:  

9789027205858

ISBN 10:   902720585
Pages:   245
Publication Date:   03 February 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Acknowledgments; 2. List of tables and figures; 3. List of abbreviations; 4. Chapter 1. Introduction: Polysemy, heterogeneity and ambiguity in word-formation patterns; 5. Chapter 2. Phonological, syntactic and semantic constraints on the formation of -ee words; 6. Chapter 3. The career of -ee words: A diachronic analysis from medieval legal use to nineteenth-century ironic nonce words; 7. Chapter 4. Morphology and the lexicon: On creativity and productivity of -ee words; 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: General and particular implications; 11. Works cited; 12. Appendix 1. Documentation of established -ee words with their citation sources: A comparison (in alphabetical order); 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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