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Chapter 4 investigates modern English neoclassical CFs. It explores fifteen initial and four final CFs, showing their type/token frequency and hapaxes in COCA and NOW, and their diachronic evolution in the GBC.
Chapter 6 investigates the secreted type of CFs. It analyses twelve initial and fifteen final CFs by showing their secretion process, frequency, and profitability. Their diachronic analysis testifies to their relevance to present-day English.
Chapter 7 explores recent splinters or CFs in the making. It investigates the profitability of five initial and eight final splinters, originally viewed as blend parts and later developed as frequent spliters used in series, to form new words by analogy.
The book ends with the conclusions that the three categories of CFs analysed range on a continuum from compound-like to affix-like, and consist of an open class of elements destined to expand, to include novel splinters and form new words.
Chapter 5 analyses fifteen initial and seven final abbreviated CFs. It shows their type/token frequency and their profitability in COCA and NOW. Their diachronic evolution is explored in the GBC.
Chapter 2 is a survey of the definitions of CFs in main morphological accounts. CFs are then described as part of transitional morphology and compared with affixes and compound constituents.
Chapter 3 describes the dataset and the methodology for data selection. It also illustrates the corpora of analysis and the approach to morphological productivity used for the quantitative investigation.
The Introduction provides an overview of the book and explains its rationale, main goals, and research questions. It presents how the book is organised and its target readership.
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