... *son -in- laws but sons -in- law. Under the assumption that son -in- law is one word (i.e. some kind of compound), the plural ending is inserted inside the word and not at the end. Apart from certain ... Word-formation in English by Ingo Plag Universität Siegen in press Cambridge University Press Series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics’ Draft version of ... 4. 4.1. Nominal...
... training,
though. Now in his fifties, he is
recognised as a leading expert in one of
contemporary music's most fashionable
offshoots - the revival of interest in the
ancient string instrument, ... build - it cost the same price per
square metre as low-cost housing for rent. Not surprisingly,
the commercial building companies are determinedly
resisting this idea.
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... suffixes in ( 14) are consonant-initial, whereas the suffixes in (15) are
vowel-initial. This means that the vowel-initial suffixes integrate into the prosodic
structure of the base word. In contrast ...
examples
-( at)ion alternation -ness religiousness
-y candidacy -less televisionless
-al environmental -ful eventful
-ic parasitic -hood companionhood
-ize hypothesize -ship e...
...
compounds, are illustrated in (22):
(22) beer drinker pasta-eating
car driver window-cleaning
bookseller shop clearance
church-goer soccer-playing
In principle, there are two possibilities ... university- controlled hair-raising
clear-sighted Washington-based awe-inspiring
Again there are two possibilities for the structural analysis, exemplified for blue-eyed,
universi...
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Word-formation in English
by
Ingo Plag
Universität Siegen
in press
Cambridge University Press
Series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics’
Draft version ... suffixes in ( 14) are consonant-initial, whereas the suffixes in (15) are
vowel-initial. This means that the vowel-initial suffixes integrate into the prosodic
structure of the base word....