Heterogeneity in word-formation patterns : a corpus-based analysis of suffixation with -ee and its productivity in English / / Susanne Mühleisen

• Autore: Muehleisen Susanne
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, c2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Disciplina: 425/.92
• Soggetto topico: English language - Suffixes and prefixes; English language - Word formation
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Heterogeneity in word-formation patterns
• ISBN: 1-282-55860-9; 9786612558603; 90-272-8838-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825131103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in language companion series ; ; v. 118.