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Extra-grammatical Morphology in English : Abbreviations, Blends, Reduplicatives, and Related Phenomena

Part of the Topics in English Linguistics [Tiel] series
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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.

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de Gruyter Mouton
3110293862 / 9783110293869
Hardback
425.9
22/01/2013
Germany
349 pages
155 x 230 mm, 639 grams
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