Author: Isitt, David
Title: Crazic, Menty and Idiotal. An Inquiry into the Use of Suffixes -al, -ic, -ly and -y in Modern English
Description: Goteborg, Acta Universitatis, (1983). orig.wrappers. 22x15cm, 309 pp, Series: Gothenburg Studies in English, 52.. Textual tables. Minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction; Collecting the Stock Material; Recognition; Restrictions on the Stock Material; The Stock Material; Unsegmentables; Potential Allomorphy of (AL), (IC), (LY), (Y) in Final Position; Suffixes in Extended Environments; The Stem as Morpheme or Allomorph; Recognition of Distinctively Weak Suffixes in Other than Extended Environments; Restatement of the Segmentation & Recognition Rules in their Revised Form; Progress to Date; Patterns; A Statistical Rule for Determining Pattern Strength; List of Pattern Strengths; Patterns & Contributory Power; Testing the Patterns; The First Round of Tests; Results of the First Round of Tesrts; Conclusions & Speculations; The New (Y) Patterns; The New (Y) Tests; The Results of the (AL)/(IC) Questions; Attributive versus Predicative Function; Appendices.

Keywords: Adjective Suffixes, Modern English, Suffix, Germanic Languages, Linguistics, Language, , ,