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Published online: 9 February 2022

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Figure 1:General layout of the tables used in Chapters 3–6 to compile semantic components of constructional schemas

Figure 1.1:A two-dimensional analysis of the pejorative bitch

Figure 2.1:Types of subordinate compound according to Scalise & Bisetto’s (2009: 50) general classification

Figure 2.2:Correlation between semantic schemas of affixed words ending in ‑ist and the input semantics of bases

Figure 3.1:The conceptualization of evaluative diminutives out of diminution

Figure 3.2:The grammaticalization of ‑ie from diminution to pejoration and endearment

Figure 3.3:Distribution of ‑ie constructions according to their output semantics

Figure 3.4:Proportion of ‑ie pejoratives stemming from pejorative and non-pejorative bases

Figure 3.5:Distribution of ‑o constructions according to their output semantics

Figure 3.6:Proportion of ‑o pejoratives stemming from pejorative and non-pejorative bases

Figure 4.1:Semantic tendencies of ultra‑ derivatives according to the value of the base

Figure 4.2:Semantic abstraction of the leader word workaholic in the formation of ‑holic as a combining form

Figure 4.3:Semantic abstraction of ‑rrhea and ‑itis in the formation of pejoratives

Figure 4.4:Semantic changes underlying the formation of the combining form ‑maniac ‘an obsessive enthusiast’

Figure 5.1:The aspect of incompleteness in smartish

Figure 6.1:The word-formation categories of ‑shirt and ‑head based on the metonymization continuum

Figure 6.2:The positions of a combining form and a compound base on a word-formation continuum

Table 2.1:Formation patterns of blends, adapted from Tomić (2019: n.p.)

Table 2.2:Ten most frequent ‘shashified’ bases on the NOW Corpus

Table 3.1:Five pejorative forms of outie/innie

Table 3.2:The correlation between DaNs denoting [+human] and their pejorative/ambivalent output semantics

Table 3.3:Loanwords and etymologically unknown words that are excluded from the dataset in Appendix 2

Table 3.4:Nominalizations ending in ‑o and conveying the senses of ‘foolish’ and ‘mad’

Table 6.1:The morphological structures of ‑head as a combining form and as a compound base

Table 6.2:Syntactic and semantic parameters of various examples of ‑ass units, according to the data extracted from the corpora