Acknowledgments -- List of tables and figures -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: polysemy, heterogeneity and ambiguity in word-formation patterns -- 2. Phonological, syntactic and semantic constraints on the formation of -ee words -- 3. The career of -ee words: a diachronic analysis from medieval legal use to nineteenth-century ironic nonce words -- 4. Morphology and the lexicon: on creativity and productivity of -ee words -- 5. A corpus-based analysis of 1,000 potential new -ee words -- 6. -ee words in varieties of English -- Works cited -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2.
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