[Ads-l] query on -s truncation
Arnold Zwicky
zwicky at STANFORD.EDU
Wed May 27 17:03:53 UTC 2015
> On May 27, 2015, at 9:14 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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> A colleague off-list wonders if anything has been published on the truncation process described by one of her students, who is working on them, as
>
> "-s truncation of adjectives and adverbs by younger speakers, yielding for example 'totes', 'awks', 'adorbs', from 'totally', 'awkward', 'adorable', etc."
>
> Seems like I vaguely recall something on this but I can't remember what. Anyone?
a little bit on on my blog, with references to ADS-L:
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/12/31/amaze/
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