Submorphemic iconicity in the lexicon: a diachronic approach to English ‘gn- words’
By applying a principle of submorphemic invariance to the word-initial segment gn- (phonologically /n/) in the heuristic class of English ‘gn- words’, I show that this segment functions as a ‘sublexical marker’ (<gn->), defined as a semiologically and notionally invariant submorphemi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3
2008-11-01
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| Series: | Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/lexis/728 |