<p><P>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 truncatio
Canonical Forms in Prosodic Morphology
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 296
- Series
- Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
- Category
- Library
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