LEADER 03619nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910825131103321 005 20240513085054.0 010 $a1-282-55860-9 010 $a9786612558603 010 $a90-272-8838-0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000012492 035 $a(OCoLC)615600487 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10370355 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000401814 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11288120 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000401814 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10421425 035 $a(PQKB)10031508 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC623362 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL623362 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10370355 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL255860 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000012492 100 $a20091207d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHeterogeneity in word-formation patterns $ea corpus-based analysis of suffixation with -ee and its productivity in English /$fSusanne Mu?hleisen 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aPhiladelphia $cJohn Benjamins Pub. Company$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (264 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in language companion series,$x0165-7763 ;$vv. 118 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a90-272-0585-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAcknowledgments -- 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. 330 $aPostulated word-formation rules often exclude formations that can nevertheless be found in actual usage. This book presents an in-depth investigation of a highly heterogeneous word-formation pattern in English: the formation of nouns by suffixation with -ee. Rather than relying on a single semantic or syntactic framework for analysis, the study combines diachronic, cognitive and language-contact perspectives in order to explain the diversity in the formation and establishment of -ee words. It also seeks to challenge previous measurements of productivity and proposes a new way to investigate the relationship between actual and possible words. By making use of the largest and most up-to-date electronic corpus - the World Wide Web - as a data source, this research adds substantially to the number of attested -ee words. It furthermore analyses this word-formation pattern in different varieties of English (British vs. American English; Australian English). Due to the multiplicity of approaches and analyses it offers, the study is suitable for courses in English word-formation, lexicology, corpus linguistics and historical linguistics. 410 0$aStudies in language companion series ;$vv. 118. 606 $aEnglish language$xSuffixes and prefixes 606 $aEnglish language$xWord formation 615 0$aEnglish language$xSuffixes and prefixes. 615 0$aEnglish language$xWord formation. 676 $a425/.92 700 $aMuehleisen$b Susanne$01594943 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825131103321 996 $aHeterogeneity in word-formation patterns$94089446 997 $aUNINA