sum eng ns ee dozen linguist readers responded request naturally occurring instances english nouns ee _ employee _ _ escapee _ etc thanks special thanks go gregory grefenstette rank xerox research center grenoble searched half gigabyte recent newspaper articles several people reported uses _ mentee _ person mentored reports _ standee _ person required stand bus london new york louisiana british columbia paper draft containing catalog attested uses 400 ee noun word types available anonymous ftp ftp ling rochester edu pub barker papers ee files available include draft twopage summary abstract relevant entries second edition oed including quotations paper contains quite lot data requires 48 pages print data suggest formation ee highly productive analyses based syntactic argument structure stem verb either incomplete severely disjunctive formation ee nouns obeys three essentially semantic constraints ee noun referent must sentient denotation ee noun must episodically linked denotation stem give formal semantic eventbased definition episodically linked referent ee noun must lack volitional control relevant aspect event qualifies extension noun question taken together argue semantic constraints amount thematic role type semantically defined thematic roles actively guide formation new words unsystematic selection data contributed readers linguist best wishee one lovable father one lovable mother one sick somebody one successful somebody one gooddeed doer one poor pen pal one best wishee two birthday celebrants every nine letters send washington post 15 july 1987 style section page c5 extractee recalling earlier claim rnr yields vp level extractees paul postal parasitic pseudoparasitic gaps linguistic inquiry 25 1994 page 113 festschriftee bibliography attempts cover books articles written coauthored edited festschriftee joergen dines johansen harly sonne edds 1986 pragmatics linguistics festschrift jacob l mey odense university press odense p 248 firee executives would rather begin reciting employee virtues recalling contributions company one executive tried says firee interrupted ask raise wall street journal 20 march 1987 fuckee old joke two african americans want sit front bus old days illegal accomplish pretend lawyers lest discovered believe board bus talk lawyer talk begin discuss rape case one lawyer claims understand case asks duh fucker duh fuckee reported separately dennis preston geoffrey nathan laughee another device dekoven uses meetings meter piece software functions like taxi meter displaying continuing tally much meeting costing inspiration device came meeting attorney dekoven realized wasted 11 telling long joke 300 anhour laughee san francisco chronicle 6 october 1993 page d7