Antonio Lillo
List of John Benjamins publications for which Antonio Lillo plays a role.
Articles
Nae Barr’s Irn-Bru whit ye’re oan aboot: Musings on modern Scottish rhyming slang English World-Wide 33:1, pp. 69–102 | Article
2012 Even the most cursory browse through any slang dictionary will immediately reveal that rhyming slang is a highly productive category of word-formation in contemporary British and Australian English. However, because of the inextricable difficulty in tracking what is essentially an oral (and often… read more
2009
Exploring rhyming slang in Ireland English World-Wide 25:2, pp. 273–285 | Article
2004 There are several varieties of English where rhyming slang is or has been a productive source of new words. However, its incidence in some Englishes still remains, by and large,terra incognitafor slang lexicographers and linguists alike. Based on a number of written sources and oral transcripts,… read more