Getting close-ish: A corpus based exploration of -ish as a marker of approximation and vagueness
This paper investigates the approximative nature of -ish, which takes its origin in de-adjectival adjectives in Middle English and from there spreads to -ish-derivatives from a wide array of bases, in terms of both categoriality and complexity. Drawing on data from the TV corpus, the paper charts th...
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Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
2023-04-01
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| Series: | Zeitschrift für Wortbildung |
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