Haphazard Perversion or Shrewd Analogy?: Folk-Etymology

Rundblad, Gabriella; Kronenfeld, David B.

doi:10.1075/cilt.194.05run

In:Lexicology, Semantics and Lexicography: Selected papers from the Fourth G. L. Brook Symposium, Manchester, August 1998
Edited by Julie Coleman and Christian Kay
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 194] 2000
► pp. 19–34

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Folk-Etymology

Haphazard Perversion or Shrewd Analogy?

Gabriella Rundblad

David B. Kronenfeld

Published online: 15 July 2000

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.194.05run

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