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Seminar: Aufbaumodul Sprachwissenschaft I: English Morphology Helene Lüdtke Methodology This exercise is designed to train your methodological skills. The aim is to extract data from the OED for the suffix -ish. Use the OED Online as demonstrated in our last session and do a search for the suffix. Do so separately for the seventeenth century, the eighteenth century, and for the twentieth century. Choose the list of results with the smallest amount of words and clean up the raw data. Take note of those forms where it was problematic to decide whether to include or exclude the form in question. On which basis did you include or exclude items? Try to formulate your methodology and justify your decisions as accurately as possible. Twentieth century, 192 results Excluded forms: -

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Amerenglish, n. – blend of American and English- not the suffix -ish, 12. Chinglish, n. and adj., 40. Japlish, n., Spanglish, Singlish, Yinglish bish, n. blobfish, n. delish, adj. eish, int. and n. ish, n.2 kamish, n. knish, n. micropublish, v. mish, n.2

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New English, over-bullish, adj. phish, v. Phoro finish, n Plish, n. Skish, n. Refinish, n. Sablefish, n. Tocharish, n. Unpublish, n. vigorish, n.

Ish as a suffix Adjectival suffix, conveys concept of “somewhat X, vaguely X”, can attach to adjectives, numerals, adverbs, nouns and synthetic-phrases. ➔ “of the character of X, like X” problematic forms: x delish Is an adjective with the ending ish but is not formed by adding the suffix, but by clipping the word delicious. X language specific – ish ending comes from English and not from suffix -ish Is a blend of English + any other language (Amerenglish, Chinglish, Japlish etc.), mostly used as nouns, but can also be descriptive. Ending -ish here is not suffix but part of word. voguish, adj. vogue ue-The e is dropped, but base is still Vogue. Interesting because Vogue is not a noun but a name, the derivative vogueish is therefore non-denominal derivative. pubbish, soddish, and ta tannish nnish nnishDerivative from noun and -ish. Interesting here is that consonants in the middle are doubled. haimish Haim is not an English word. Base is borrowed from Yiddish and that makes the derivative interesting.

Seminar: Aufbaumodul Sprachwissenschaft I: English Morphology Helene Lüdtke Methodology X Ish as a noun: An issue or edition in a series; spec. an issue of a magazine, esp. (in early use) a fanzine. Here Ish is not an affix, but rather a free lexeme/ a noun. X Ish as adverb: Qualifying a previous statement or description, esp. as a conversational rejoinder: almost, in a way, partially, vaguely. One of those neatly crafted middle-brow plays which, because they have a pleasantly happy ending (well, ish), might make people think that they've been handed a soft option. Ish functions as a free lexeme/ adverb, could be paraphrased here as happy-ending-ish. Over-bullish Comes from over-bull (to raise the price of stocks) or over+bullish (is derivative of bulland ish).

Methodology: First search for the suffix -ish. The results show every word ending with the form, but not every time it really is a suffix. There are also blends, clippings and compounds which come up. Looking if the base is an adjective, noun, or a name can help to determine if the suffix is included or if it there was another type of word-formation process involved. These forms where the ish is included into the word and does not function as a suffix (as in fish) are mostly compounds with one exception- delish. There are also words ending in ish which are not compounds. Those are recognizable by their length and amount of syllables (eish) but also the base which most often is not a known lexeme.

Sources: Plag, Ingo (2003). Word-Formation in English, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. “Oxford English Dictionary.” Home : Oxford English Dictionary, 1900-2000, www.oed.com/search?caseinsensitive=true&dateFilter=19002000&entryRange=%2Aish&nearDistance=1&ordered=false&scope=ENTRY....