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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The development of suffixes
- 3. Frequency, productivity and creativity
- 4. The data
- 5.-hood, -dom and -ship as rivals in word formation processes
- 6. A lexical-semantic analysis of word-formations with -hood, -dom and -ship
- 7. Theoretical consequences of morphological change
- 8. Conclusion
- Backmatter.