Hostname: page-component-5b777bbd6c-2c8nx Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-06-24T11:44:53.936Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Bankers and blue-chippers: an account of - er formations in Present-day English

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 1999

Mary Ellen Ryder
Mary Ellen Ryder
Affiliation:
Boise State University
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

The nominalizing -er suffix has been extremely productive throughout the history of English, and in Present-day English it has developed a wide range of base and referent types. Yet most formal linguistic treatments account satisfactorily for only a fraction of the types of -er nominals actually found. I propose a cognitive model which not only addresses the problems with verb-based forms that are encountered in other models, but includes an account of all the nonverb-based -er nominals as well.

Type
Research Article
Information
English Language & Linguistics , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , November 1999 , pp. 269 - 297
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable