Re: A language change question (longish)

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 01:44:51PM -0600, Eric Christopherson wrote:
> On Nov 18, 2008, at 2:22 PM, Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
>
> >Hallo!
> >
> >On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:55:21 -0600, Eric Christopherson wrote:
> >
> >>Hi, all. I've been wondering for a while about a kind of language
> >>change I've read about and noticed, where a form (or class of forms)
> >>which is inflected for a certain category gets reanalyzed in such a
> >>way that it no longer falls into that category.
> >>
> >>Examples:
> >>
> >>[snip]
> >>
> >>And is there a name for this phenomenon?
> >
> >I think it is named "reanalysis".
>
> Yes, but I was describing a specific kind thereof.
Wikipedia seems to call it "juncture loss".

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