Book contents
- Complex Words
- Complex Words
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction: Advances in Morphology
- Part I Lexico-Semantic Aspects of Complex Words
- 1 Formal Semantics and the Problem of Nominalizations
- 2 Semantically Subtractive Morphology
- 3 -less and -free
- 4 Instrument Nouns in -one in Latin and Romance
- 5 Prominence in Noun-to-Verb Conversion
- 6 On Spanish Dvandva and Its Restrictions
- Part II Structure of Complex Words
- Part III Corpus-Based Case Studies
- Index
- References
3 - -less and -free
from Part I - Lexico-Semantic Aspects of Complex Words
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2020
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Book contents
- Complex Words
- Complex Words
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction: Advances in Morphology
- Part I Lexico-Semantic Aspects of Complex Words
- 1 Formal Semantics and the Problem of Nominalizations
- 2 Semantically Subtractive Morphology
- 3 -less and -free
- 4 Instrument Nouns in -one in Latin and Romance
- 5 Prominence in Noun-to-Verb Conversion
- 6 On Spanish Dvandva and Its Restrictions
- Part II Structure of Complex Words
- Part III Corpus-Based Case Studies
- Index
- References
Summary
The formation of new words ending in free(e.g. costfree, glutenfree, and troublefree) has become highly productive since the turn of the millennium. The new suffix free has found an ecological niche that is distinct from that of its rival -less: expressions of the form Xfree have developed a new sense quite distinct from those of the rival form Xless. We demonstrate our claim by comparing internet citations of existing words of the form Xless with equivalent new words of the form Xfree.
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