CLASSIC 185 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Watergate Scandal, Old Norse Poetry, Grammaticalization
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Eng. morphology: eng. naming: patronymics seen already via scandinavians (-son, occupational names: cooper, wright, smith, baker. Opaque compounds: language change factors: sound, meaning, obsolescence of certain words, many old compounds become opaque (or: > monomorphemic/lexicalized words (becomes a single word, mod. Kennings: a gurative, usually compound expression used in place of a name or noun, esp. in old. English and old norse poetry: b n-h s: bone house= body, heaven candle-the sun, whale-way=the sea, sword-play=battle, mall rat (approx 1982): Hood (fatherhood) >meaning condition, quality grammaticalization (lexical morpheme develops over time into a grammatical morpheme degree of productivity: -ish (makes adjectives) -ast (agentive), -th (makes abstract nouns) Native vs. borrowed af xes: native suf xes: -less, -ship, -ful, -ish, -ness, -hood, native pre xes (fewer and many unproductive): un-, mis-, be, borrowed af xes are usually rare, but not in english (most from greek and latin) Voguish af xes: sudden burst of extreme productivity, then tails off.
