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English compounds and their spelling
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- Book Synopsis
- Anyone writing texts in English is constantly faced with the unavoidable question whether to use open spelling (drinking fountain), hyphenation (far-off) or solid spelling (airport) for individual compounds. While some compounds commonly occur with alternative spellings, others show a very clear bias for one form. This book tests over 60 hypotheses and explores the patterns underlying the spelling of English compounds from a variety of perspectives. Based on a sample of 600 biconstituent compounds with identical spelling in all reference works in which they occur (200 each with open, hyphenated and solid spelling), this empirical study analyses large amounts of data from corpora and dictionaries and concludes that the spelling of English compounds is not chaotic but actually correlates with a large number of statistically significant variables. An easily applicable decision tree is derived from the data and an innovative multi-dimensional prototype model is suggested to account for the results.
- About The Author
- Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer is a senior lecturer in English linguistics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. She has published widely on many diverse topics. Her books include Consociation and Dissociation: An Empirical Study of Word-Family Integration in English and German (2008), Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English Volume 16: Can We Predict Linguistic Change? (2015) and Variational Text Linguistics: Revisiting Register in English (2016).
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781107197848
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press, (03 May 2018)
- Number of Pages
- 416
- Weight
- 710 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 236 x 158 x 25 mm
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