Extravagant Morphology : Studies in Rule-Bending, Pattern-extending and Theory-challenging Morphology.

Intro -- Extravagant Morphology -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Extravagance in morphology: Introduction -- 1. On the notion of extravagance -- 2. Morphological extravagance in three respects -- 3. The extravagant phenomena studied in this volume -- Acknowledgements -- References -- What's extravagant about be-sandal-ed feet?: Morphology, semantics and pragmatics of German pseudo-participles -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Extravagance and pseudo-participles -- 3. Corpus and method of data collection -- 4. Indicators of extravagance -- 4.1 Metalinguistic comments -- 4.2 Further extravagant expressions in the context -- 4.3 Quotation marks -- 5. Sources of extravagance -- 5.1 Morphological mismatch and complexity -- 5.2 "Condensing" function -- 5.3 Semantic categories -- 6. Conclusion -- Data availability -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Extravagance, productivity and the development of -ingly adverbs -- 1. Introduction: Aims and organization -- 2. Theoretical preliminaries: Extravagance, creativity and productivity -- 2.1 Extravagance and creativity -- 2.2 Productivity -- 3. The development of -ingly adverbs: relevant research -- 4. Data sources and methodology -- 5. The quantitative development of -ingly adverbs -- 5.1 The overall productivity of -ingly derivation: data from the four fiction corpora -- 5.2 The development of the various adverbial categories: An overview -- 5.3 Some innovative users - and uses - of -ingly adverbs and the question of extravagance -- 6. Discussion -- 6.1 Research question 1: The productivity of -ingly derivation in the last 500 years -- 6.2 Research question 2: Factors triggering the development of -ingly adverbs and the role of extravagance -- 6.3 Adverbialisation, analogues and the role of frequent users -- 7. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Data sources -- References.

Diggers-out, leaf clearer-uppers and stayer-onner-for-nowers: On creativity and extravagance in English -er nominalisations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Creativity and extravagance in morphology -- 2.1 Creativity -- 2.2 Expressiveness -- 2.3 Extravagance -- 3. Data and methodology -- 4. Derivatives involving -er suffix repetition -- 4.1 -er doubling in nominalisations of particle verbs and prepositional verbs -- 4.2 Retriplication of -er -- 4.3 -er doubling in nominalisations of verbs and prepositional phrases -- 4.4 Excessive or abundant -er suffixation -- 5. Suffix repetition beyond -er -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- The extravagant dutch suffix -ke and its meandering through the interfaces -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Distributed morphology -- 3. The epenthetic consonant -- 4. The [s] is a syntactic epenthetic consonant typologically -- 5. Same syntax, different lexical items -- 6. Same lexical item, different syntax -- 6.1 The suffix -ke may occur as an honorific -- 6.2 The honorific and the diminutive are realised by the same lexical item -- 6.3 Restrictions on productivity -- 7. The path through the interfaces -- 7.1 The features realised by -ke/-tje -- 7.2 The insertion of the epenthetic consonant -- 7.3 A remaining puzzle -- 8. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Linguistic extravagance in compounds and idioms - an analysis of morphological marking -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Two types of (nominal root) compounds in German and English -- 3. An exoskeletal approach to syntax -- 4. Back to compounds -- 5. Next up: Idioms -- 5.1 A first approximation -- 5.2 Tentative extensions -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Extravagant expressions denoting quite normal entities: Identical constituent compounds in German -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous research on German Prot-ICCs -- 3. The distinction between Prot-ICCs and Det-ICCs -- 4. Methods.

4.1 Corpora -- 4.2 Query and coding -- 5. Results -- 5.1 Data distribution -- 5.2 Formal features and word length -- 5.3 Spelling -- 5.4 Context analysis -- 5.5 Date of attestation -- 6. Discussion -- 6.1 Formal features and spelling -- 6.2 Contextual aspects -- 6.3 The emergence of Prot-ICC formation -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- DO NOT REPEAT: Repetition and reduplication in German revisited -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Repetition in language -- 1.2 Extravagant repetition in German -- 1.3 Do not repeat: A generalisation regarding reduplicative structures -- 2. Repetition and repetition avoidance at the sub-lexical level -- 2.1 The segmental level -- 2.2 The syllable level -- 3. Repetition at the lexical level and above -- 3.1 The foot level -- 3.2 Repetition at the p-word level -- 3.3 Repetition at the phrase level -- 4. Summary and conclusion -- 4.1 Summary -- 4.2 Conclusion -- References -- They're proing it up hardcore: An analysis of the V it up construction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Properties of the V it up construction -- 2.1 Linguistic description of V it up and its components -- 2.2 Speakers' intuitions about V it up -- 3. Extravagance, expressiveness and transitivity -- 3.1 Extravagance -- 3.2 Expressiveness -- 3.3 Transitivity and prototypicality -- 4. Data and method -- 5. Analysis: V it up on Twitter -- 5.1 Promiscuity with regard to input category &amp -- input basehood -- 5.2 Transitivity and prototypicality -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Wild words: The case of morphologically embedded general extenders -- 1. Introduction -- 2. General extenders and lists -- 3. Analysis -- 3.1 Case study 1: eccetera 'etcetera' -- 3.2 Case study 2: tutto 'everything/all' -- 3.3 Summing up -- 4. Theoretical discussion -- 5. Concluding remarks -- References -- Index.

Taking extra-vagans literally (Lat. 'wandering outside, out of bounds'), this volume comprises nine case studies on extravagant morphology ranging from pattern-extending derivational processes via theory-challenging compounding processes to interface-straddling morphosyntactic phenomena.

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