English Prosodic Morphology

• Main Author: Lappe, Sabine (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Germanic languages.; Grammar.; Phonology.; Germanic Languages.; Theoretical Linguistics.

This is 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...

Table of Contents:

• English Prosodic Morphology: Morphology
• English Prosodic Morphology: Prosody
• The Patterns
• The Structure of Monosyllabic Truncated Names
• The Structure of Y-Hypocoristics
• The Structure of Clippings
• Constraint Interaction: Word Structure
• Constraint Interaction: Syllable Structure
• Constraint Interaction: Cluster Phonotactics
• Constraint Interaction: Segmental Changes.