03774nam 2200661Ia 450 991096977170332120240513085054.097866125586039781282558601128255860997890272883879027288380(CKB)2670000000012492(OCoLC)615600487(CaPaEBR)ebrary10370355(SSID)ssj0000401814(PQKBManifestationID)11288120(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000401814(PQKBWorkID)10421425(PQKB)10031508(MiAaPQ)EBC623362(Au-PeEL)EBL623362(CaPaEBR)ebr10370355(CaONFJC)MIL255860(DE-B1597)720859(DE-B1597)9789027288387(EXLCZ)99267000000001249220091207d2010 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrHeterogeneity in word-formation patterns a corpus-based analysis of suffixation with -ee and its productivity in English /Susanne Mühleisen1st ed.Amsterdam ;Philadelphia John Benjamins Pub. Companyc20101 online resource (264 p.) Studies in language companion series,0165-7763 ;v. 118Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9789027205858 902720585X Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 the relationship between actual and possible words. By making use of the largest and most up-to-date electronic corpus - the World Wide Web - as a data source, this research adds substantially to the number of attested -ee words. It furthermore analyses this word-formation pattern in different varieties of English (British vs. American English; Australian English). Due to the multiplicity of approaches and analyses it offers, the study is suitable for courses in English word-formation, lexicology, corpus linguistics and historical linguistics.Studies in language companion series ;v. 118.English languageSuffixes and prefixesEnglish languageWord formationEnglish languageSuffixes and prefixes.English languageWord formation.425/.92Muehleisen Susanne1799879MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910969771703321Heterogeneity in word-formation patterns4344298UNINA