Antonio Lillo

List of John Benjamins publications for which Antonio Lillo plays a role.

Articles

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
Lillo, Antonio 2004 Exploring rhyming slang in IrelandEnglish World-Wide 25:2, pp. 273–285 | Article
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