Re: A language change question (longish)
| From: | Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 20:19 |
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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".
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