Lexical Semantics and Diachronic Morphology

Lexical Semantics and Diachronic MorphologyThis 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

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