Symbols and Abbreviations
In this study, the following symbols and abbreviations will be employed:
| …/… |
spelling variants |
| /…/ |
phonological transcription |
| ‘…’ |
meaning |
| {…} |
morpheme |
| * |
hypothetical form |
| < |
‘is derived from’ |
| ∅ |
zero morpheme |
| adj. |
adjective |
| adv. |
adverb |
| AmE |
American English |
| BE |
British English |
| BNC |
British National Corpus |
| COCA |
Corpus of Contemporary American English |
| COHA |
Corpus of Historical American English |
| DRAE |
Diccionario de la Lengua Española de la Real Academia Española |
| HT |
Historical Thesaurus of English |
| HTOED |
Historical Thesaurus of the OED |
| int. |
interjection |
| J.L. |
Julia Landmann |
| LDOCE |
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (online version) |
| n. |
noun |
| OALD |
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (online version) |
| OED |
Oxford English Dictionary |
| p. |
phrase |
| p.c. |
personal communication |
| prep. |
prepositional |
| RQ |
research question |
| Soap Corpus |
Corpus of American Soap Operas |
| Spoken BNC |
Spoken British National Corpus 2014 |
| TLF |
Trésor de la Langue Française |
| transl. |
translated by |