Peter Lang, 2015. — 278 p. — (English Corpus Linguistics). — ISBN: 978-3-653-04788-2. This book presents the first large-scale usage-based investigation of the conventionalization process of English neologisms in the online speech community. The study answers the longstanding question of how and why some neologisms become part of the English lexicon and others do not. It...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2017. — 259 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs). — ISBN10: 3110548593, ISBN13: 978-3110548594. This book fills a gap in lexical morphology, especially with reference to analogy in English word-formation. Many studies have focused their interest on the role played by analogy within English inflectional morphology. However, the analogical...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2013. — 340 p. ISBN: 3110293862 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...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 312 p. — ISBN: 0199689881. Includes references and indices. English Lexicogenesis investigates the processes by which novel words are coined in English, and how they are variously discarded or adopted, and frequently then adapted. Gary Miller looks at the roles of affixation, compounding, clipping, and blending in the history of lexicogenesis,...
The Early 21 st Century's Words and Expressions Existing in the English Language but not in Dictionaries Publisher: BBC Format / Quality: PDF, MP3 This new contains units (lessons) for English teachers to explain words or expressions in the current news or today conversations, which you can't find in the dictionary! Each unit contains transcript, audio and a lesson plan for...
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