Antonio Lillo
List of John Benjamins publications in which Antonio Lillo is involved.
Articles
2012 Nae Barr’s Irn-Bru whit ye’re oan aboot: Musings on modern Scottish rhyming slang English World-Wide 33:1, pp. 69–102 | Article
Even the most cursory browse through any slang dictionary will immediately reveal that rhyming slang is a highly productive category of word-formation in contemporary British and Australian English. However, because of the inextricable difficulty in tracking what is essentially an oral (and often… read more
2009 Crítica de Trudgill & Hernández Campoy (2007): Diccionario de sociolingüística Spanish in Context 6:2, pp. 301–304 | Review
2004 Exploring rhyming slang in Ireland English World-Wide 25:2, pp. 273–285 | Article
There are several varieties of English where rhyming slang is or has been a productive source of new words. However, its incidence in some Englishes still remains, by and large,terra incognitafor slang lexicographers and linguists alike. Based on a number of written sources and oral transcripts,… read more