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Lexical semantics and diachronic morphology : the development of -hood, -dom and -ship in the history of English /
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 dev...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tübingen :
M. Niemeyer,
2009.
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| Colección: | Linguistische Arbeiten (Max Niemeyer Verlag) ;
527. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 267 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-254) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783484971318 3484971312 1282296345 9781282296343 3484305274 9783484305274 |
| ISSN: | 0344-6727 ; |