Extra-grammatical Morphology in English
Abbreviations, Blends, Reduplicatives, and Related Phenomena| By: | Elisa Mattiello |
| Publisher: | De Gruyter |
| Print ISBN: | 9783110293869 |
| eText ISBN: | 9783110295399 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2013 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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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.