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Extra-grammatical Morphology in English: Abbreviations, Blends, Reduplicatives, and Related Phenomena: 82
Author(s): Mattiello (Author)
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Publication Date: 26 Oct. 2017
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 352 pages
- ISBN-10: 3110293862
- ISBN-13: 9783110293869
Book Description
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. This book analyses such phenomena.
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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. This book analyses such phenomena, and demonstrates that, although not rule-bound, they are nonetheless partially predictable on the basis of analogical patterns, and do generally comply both with criteria of well-formedness and with principles of contextual suitability.
About the Author
Elisa Mattiello, University of Pisa, Italy.
