The suffix -ee: history, productivity, frequency and violation of stress rules
According to Bauer (1983), Barker (1998), Plag (2003) and Mühleisen (2010), -ee has become a very productive suffix, not confined any more to its original role in legal language as a patient suffix contrasted with the agent suffix -or (e.g. bailor / bailee). Many new coinages are supposed to have ap...
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Presses Universitaires du Midi
2020-12-01
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/3504 |
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