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Author Trips, Carola.

Title Lexical semantics and diachronic morphology : the development of -hood, -dom and -ship in the history of English / Carola Trips.

Publication Info. Tübingen : M. Niemeyer, 2009.
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 267 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Linguistische Arbeiten, 0344-6727 ; 527
Linguistische Arbeiten (Max Niemeyer Verlag) ; 527.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-254) and index.
Summary This book is the most comprehensive study to date of the development of the three suffixes -hood, -dom and -ship in the history of English. Based on data from annotated corpora it provides an in depth investigation from Old English to Modern English and shows that structurally the three suffixes developed from syntactic heads (nouns) via morphological heads in compounds to morphological heads in derivations. Being an instance of morphologisation the rise of suffixes clearly shows that word formation is not part of the syntactic module. This development is triggered by semantic change, more pre.
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Subject English language -- Word formation -- History.
English language -- Word formation.
History.
English language -- Suffixes and prefixes.
English language -- Suffixes and prefixes.
English language -- Semantics, Historical.
English language -- Semantics, Historical.
Historical lexicology.
Historical lexicology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Trips, Carola. Lexical semantics and diachronic morphology. Tübingen : Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2009 9783484305274 (OCoLC)351312979
ISBN 9783484971318 (electronic book)
3484971312 (electronic book)
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9783484305274
9783484305274
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