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This e-book is the main complete learn up to now of the advance of the 3 suffixes -hood, -dom and -ship within the background of English. a detailed research from outdated English to trendy English in line with info from annotated corpora finds that each one 3 suffixes built from nouns into brand new suffixes development summary nouns. it's proven that the increase of suffixes is caused via semantic switch. The findings are analysed in a present version of lexical semantics of be aware formation (Lieber 2004). The e-book contains an index with all formations with the 3 suffixes from outdated English to trendy English.

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