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The Derivational Suffixes and Suffixoids of Old Saxon: A Panchronic Approach to a Linguistic Category

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2008

Christopher M. Stevens
Christopher M. Stevens
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Department of Germanic Languages and LiteraturesUniversity of California, Los Angeles405 Hilgard AvenueLos Angeles, CA 90095–1539 [[email protected]]
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A survey of the literature on Old Saxon derivational suffixes and suffixoids does not yield a neat and clear-cut picture of forms. The reason is that some researchers take a diachronic view of the data, while others take a synchronic view. In this article I recommend a panchronic view of the data in hopes of clarifying the situation. As part of the discussion I argue that affixoids are a good example of grammaticalization. I thus also discuss and—as far as research on German is concerned—aim to resurrect the notion of AFFIXOID as a linguistic category. If successful, the results of this paper may be applied to other languages.

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Journal of Germanic Linguistics , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , Spring 2000 , pp. 53 - 79
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Copyright © Society for Germanic Linguistics 2000

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