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The form in is overburdened as to the various lexical and word-forming functions it fulfils in English and as to the numerous aspects of meaning it conveys. 1 The present study endeavours to examine semantic and morphological implications of this versatile form in two distinct -and productive -noun types: (A) blow-in, (B) marry-in, sick-in. ## SOURCES The material analysed and discussed in the subsequent paragraphs comprises 182 nominal -in formations, i.e. combination nouns with a final -in morpheme. Formations coined before 1900 were all excerpted from Lindelof's (1938) excellent monograph. Nominal -in units created after 1900 were taken from word lists published in American Speech or from dictionaries, monographs and articles dealing with American wordformation. A considerable number of -in neologisms coined recently (and referring to protest demonstrations or collective happenings) was excerpted from newspapers, magazines, posters and television programs. Thus the material collected attempts to cover a period beginning with the first appearance of a nominal -in formation in English (pop-in, 1748) up to the most recent coinages of the past five years. As other new members of the

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Author

LEV SOUDEK

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Published

1974

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)