Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Extravagance in morphology 1
4. What’s extravagant about be-sandal-ed feet ? 19
5. Extravagance, productivity and the development of - ingly adverbs 51
6. Diggers-out, leaf clearer-uppers and stayer-onner-for-nowers 73
7. The extravagant dutch suffix -ke and its meandering through the interfaces 101
8. Linguistic extravagance in compounds and idioms – an analysis of morphological marking 131
9. Extravagant expressions denoting quite normal entities 155
10. do not repeat 181
11. They’re proing it up hardcore 207
12. Wild words 233
13. Index 255