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Semantics and Word Formation: The Semantic Development of Five French Suffixes in Middle English - Studies in Historical Linguistics Cynthia Lloyd New edition
Semantics and Word Formation: The Semantic Development of Five French Suffixes in Middle English - Studies in Historical Linguistics
Cynthia Lloyd
Features the integration into English of the five nominal suffixes -ment, -ance, -ation, -age and -al, which entered Middle English via borrowings from French, and which now form abstract nouns by attaching themselves to various base categories, as in cord/cordage or adjust/adjustment.
313 pages, 99, tables and graphs
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | January 5, 2011 |
| ISBN13 | 9783039119103 |
| Publishers | Verlag Peter Lang |
| Pages | 313 |
| Dimensions | 225 × 153 × 19 mm · 426 g |
| Language | French |