On the non-viability of the endocentric–exocentric distinction: Evidence from linguistic creativity

While there is a vast number of compounds in English whose meaning (and motivation) can be traced back to conceptual metaphor and metonymy, they have often been dismissed in morphological literature as semantically opaque phenomena that are not formed on the basis of productive patterns. This bias...

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Main Author: Réka Benczes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Tuzla, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences 2025-01-01
Series:ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics)
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Online Access:http://exell.untz.ba/index.php/exell/article/view/10