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

De Gruyter Mouton, 2013. — 340 pages. ISBN: 3110293862Extra-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.ContentsIntroduction
Data
Key references
Organisation of the work
The theoretical framework
Extra-grammatical formations in Generative Morphology
Extra-grammatical formations in Naturalness Theory
Extra-grammatical morphology
Abbreviations
Definition, delimitation, and classification
Abbreviations as extra-grammatical phenomena
Blends
Definition, delimitation, and classification
Blending as an extra-grammatical phenomenon
Reduplicatives
Definition, delimitation, and classification
Reduplication as an extra-grammatical phenomenon
Minor phenomena
Back-formation: Definition, delimitation, and classification
Back-formation as an extra-grammatical phenomenon
Infixation: Definition, delimitation, and classification
Infixation as an extra-grammatical phenomenon
Phonaesthemes: Definition, delimitation, and classification
Phonaesthemes as an extra-grammatical phenomenon
Extra-grammatical formations in use
Principles of contextual suitability
Typical contexts and domains
Contextualising extra-grammatical phenomena
Conclusions