In:Heterogeneity in Word-Formation Patterns: A corpus-based analysis of suffixation with -ee and its productivity in English
Susanne Mühleisen
[Studies in Language Companion Series 118] 2010
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Published online: 3 February 2010
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.118.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.118.toc
Table of contents
Acknowledgmentsix
List of tables and figures
List of abbreviationsxiii
Chapter 1. Introduction: Polysemy, heterogeneity and ambiguity in word-formation patterns
Chapter 2. Phonological, syntactic and semantic constraints on the formation of -ee words
Chapter 3. The career of -ee words: A diachronic analysis from medieval legal use to nineteenth-century ironic nonce words
Chapter 4. Morphology and the lexicon: On creativity and productivity of -ee words
Chapter 5. A corpus-based analysis of 1,000 potential new -ee words
Chapter 6. -ee words in varieties of English
Conclusion. On the study of an individual word-formation pattern: General and particular implications
Works cited
Appendix 1. Documentation of established -ee words with their citation sources: A comparison (in alphabetical order)
Appendix 2. Quantitative analysis of 1,000 potential -ee words (Web-search, February–June 2005)
Name index
Subject index
