How to do (even more) things with nonce words (other than naming)

Hohenhaus, Peter

doi:10.1075/sfsl.58.08hoh

In:Lexical Creativity, Texts and Contexts
Edited by Judith Munat
[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics 58] 2007
► pp. 15–38

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How to do (even more) things with nonce words (other than naming)

Peter Hohenhaus | University of Nottingham

Published online: 6 November 2007

https://doi.org/10.1075/sfsl.58.08hoh

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