How nouns turn into adjectives. The emergence of new adjectives in French, English and Dutch through debonding processes
(2012) Adjectives in Germanic and Romance: Variation and change — Location: Amsterdam (29.March.2012)
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- This study will focus on French, Dutch and English adjectives that arose through "debonding" from N+N- or N+A-compounds or compound-like sequences. Debonding is a type of degrammaticalization defined by Norde as "a composite change whereby a bound morpheme in a specific linguistic context becomes a free morpheme" (Norde 2009:186). It typically involves processes such as severance (i.e. decrease in bondedness), flexibilization (i.e. increase in syntactic freedom), scope expansion and recategorialization.
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Katholieke Universiteit Leuven OE Taalkunde
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Van Goethem, K., & De Smet, H. (2012). How nouns turn into adjectives. The emergence of new adjectives in French, English and Dutch through debonding processes. Adjectives in Germanic and Romance: Variation and change, Amsterdam. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/225152