Trips, Carola
Lexical Semantics and Diachronic Morphology

The Development of -hood, -dom and -ship in the History of English.

An in depth investigation from Old English to Modern English based on data from annotated corpora reveals that all three suffixes developed from nouns into today's suffixes building abstract nouns. It is shown that the rise of suffixes is triggered by semantic change. X,267 Seiten, broschiert (Linguistische Arbeiten; Band 527/Max Niemeyer Verlag 2009) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear