Extra-grammatical morphology in english: abbreviations, blends, reduplicatives, and related phenomena
Auteur :
Mattiello, Elisa
Éditeur :
De Gruyter
ISBN :
9783110293869
Date de publication :
22 janv. 2013
Dimensions :
23,0 x 15,5 cm
Poids :
639 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Allemagne
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 both greater attention and more systematic study.