Re: THEORY : reverse clitization

Quoting "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...>:

> Quoting Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>:
>
> > Just a terminological question that came up when thinking about the
> English
> > and Swedish genitives:
> >
> > When a particle becomes a clitic, we speak of "clitization". Would the
> word
> > also apply to an affix semidetaching to become a clitic (as these genitive
> > markers have done), or is there another term for that?
>
> I don't know of a particular word for this; I suspect a newly
> polysemous "cliticization" would be used.
>
> > While at it, are there terms for a clitic fully detaching to become an
> > independent word, or attaching fully to become an affix?
>
> For the latter notion, yes:  _grammaticalization_.  For the former
> (e.g. the recent development of "ex" for "former spouse"), I don't
> believe there is a distinct word, but perhaps "degrammaticalization"
> would do.
Thanks.

Oh, and I see I managed to misspell "cliticization" twice in my original post.
Oh, my ...

                                                    Andreas