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Re: A language change question (longish)

From:Arnt Richard Johansen <arj@...>
Date:Saturday, November 22, 2008, 20:57
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". -- Arnt Richard Johansen http://arj.nvg.org/ På 1300-tallet kom tersen. Før og etter det var det meste bare rot, men så kom Schönberg og ordnet opp. Puh. Endelig litt system. Så klarte Arne Nordheim å rote det til igjen. -- Under Dusken 08/2001

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