Heterogeneity in Word-Formation Patterns

Name: Heterogeneity in Word-Formation Patterns | A corpus-based analysis of suffixation with -ee and its productivity in English
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A corpus-based analysis of suffixation with -ee and its productivity in English

Susanne Mühleisen(Autor*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 3. Februar 2010

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Heterogeneity in Word-Formation Patterns
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
List of tables and figures
List of abbreviations
1. Introduction
1.1 Theoretical and methodological approaches in this study
1.2 Outline of chapters
1.3 Aims and scope of this study: Wider implications
2. Phonological, syntactic and semantic constraints
A note on the data cited from the corpus material
2.1 Phonological limitations to -ee verb derivation
2.2 Syntactic limitations of -ee as a verb derivation
2.3 Semantic explanations: -ee formation in a thematic role framework
2.4 Conclusion: Heterogeneity, polysemy and ambiguity revisited
3. The career of -ee words
3.1 Towards a contextualized history of -ee suffixation
3.2 Anglicized Law French beginnings
3.3 English indirect object formations in the sixteenth century
3.4 Growing diversity in the seventeenth century
3.5 Recession and continuations in the eighteenth century
3.6 Abundance in the nineteenth century: -ee words go popular
3.7 Changes across the centuries: Simultaneity and ambiguity
4. Morphology and the lexicon
4.1 Word-formation between morphology and the lexicon
4.2 Productivity and creativity in word-formation
4.3 Types of productivity: Synchronic and diachronic processes
4.4 Productive patterns and features of twentieth-century -ee words
4.5 Among the new words: Nonce words, neologisms and processes of establishment
4.6 Actual words and possible words: Towards an empirical study
5. A corpus-based analysis
5.1 Web data for linguistic purposes: Searching corpora and searching the Web
5.2 Searching the Web for -ee words: On methods and procedures
5.3 Syntactic and semantic patterns of successful neologisms
5.4 On 'failees': Ineffective patterns of -ee words
5.5 Hapax Legomena and their production in various text types
5.6 New productivity? On data collection and productivity measurement
6. -ee words in varieties of English
6.1 Suffixation with -ee in American English: A comparison of historical and contemporary usages
6.2 Australian English usage: On hypocoristics and -ee words
6.3 A corpus-based analysis of some new -ee words in American, British, Australian, New Zealand and Indian Englishes
6.4 Global meets local: Variation and change of -ee word production in varieties of English
Conclusion
Works cited
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Name index
Subject index
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