Extra-Grammatical Morphology in English

Elisa Mattiello
Walter de Gruyter Gmbh Us Sr
 9783110293869
3-11-029386-2

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.

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mechanisms, such as abbreviation, blending and reduplication, which therefore deserve both greater attention and more systematic study. This book analyses such phenomena.