Variation in morphological productivity in the BNC: Sociolinguistic and methodological considerations

Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 119-141

  Säily, Tanja ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b Research Unit for Variation   (Finland)

Author keywords

gender variation; hapax legomena; methodology; morphological productivity; nominal suffixes; present day English; sociolinguistics; word formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954609873     PISSN: 16137027     EISSN: 16137035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CLLT.2011.006     Document Type: Article

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