Lexical Semantics and Diachronic Morphology : : The Development of -hood, -dom and -ship in the History of English /

Lexical Semantics and Diachronic Morphology : : The Development of -hood, -dom and -ship in the History of English / / Carola Trips.

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Trips, Carola,
Place / Publishing House:Tübingen : : Max Niemeyer Verlag, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Linguistische Arbeiten , 527
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Physical Description:1 online resource (267 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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