Re: A language change question (longish)
| From: | Eric Christopherson <rakko@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, November 22, 2008, 19:45 |
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On Nov 18, 2008, at 2:22 PM, Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
> Hallo!
>
> On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:55:21 -0600, Eric Christopherson wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> [snip]
>>
>> And is there a name for this phenomenon?
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> I think it is named "reanalysis".
Yes, but I was describing a specific kind thereof.
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