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UNINA9910792365203321 |
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Autore |
Muehleisen Susanne |
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Titolo |
Heterogeneity in word-formation patterns [[electronic resource] ] : a corpus-based analysis of suffixation with -ee and its productivity in English / / Susanne Mühleisen |
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Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, c2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-55860-9 |
9786612558603 |
90-272-8838-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in language companion series, , 0165-7763 ; ; v. 118 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English language - Suffixes and prefixes |
English language - Word formation |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Acknowledgments -- List of tables and figures -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: polysemy, heterogeneity and ambiguity in word-formation patterns -- Phonological, syntactic and semantic constraints on the formation of -ee words -- The career of -ee words: a diachronic analysis from medieval legal use to nineteenth-century ironic nonce words -- Morphology and the lexicon: on creativity and productivity of -ee words -- A corpus-based analysis of 1,000 potential new -ee words -- -ee words in varieties of English. |
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