Extra-grammatical Morphology in English : Abbreviations, Blends, Reduplicatives, and Related Phenomena.
Extra-grammatical morphology is a hitherto neglected area of research, highly marginalised because of its irregularity and unpredictability. Yet many neologisms in English are formed by means of extra-grammatical mechanisms, such as abbreviation, blending and reduplication, which therefore deserve b...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
2013.
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Series: | Topics in English Linguistics TiEL.
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Online Access: | CONNECT |