The History of -<i>eer</i> in English: Suffix Competition or Symbiosis?

Ecological models of competition have provided great explanatory power regarding synonymy in derivational morphology. Competition models of this type have certainly shown their utility, as they have demonstrated, among other things, the relevance of frequency measures, productivity, compositionality...

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Main Authors: Zachary Dukic, Chris C. Palmer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2024-03-01
Series:Languages
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/9/3/102