English Prosodic Morphology

by Sabine Lappe

Book Overview

Linguistic academics and speech therapists will find here the first modern book-length empirical study and theoretical account of English truncatory processes. On the basis of a corpus comprising some 3000 derivatives, the book provides a systematic investigation of the structural properties of six different patterns of English name truncation and word clipping. All patterns are shown to be unique in terms of the structural requirements that they...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048175003
• ISBN13: 9789048175000
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"