The Middle English suffix -ish: Reasons for decline in productivity
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2012
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Adam Mickiewicz University
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The aim of the present paper is to investigate the reasons for the significant decline in
both the frequency and productivity of the suffix -ish in Middle English. The major
factors responsible seem to be the growing popularity of the of + Noun phrases as well
as the competition among -ish and other suffixes.
The analysis will be preceded with the introduction of some essential facts concerning
the semantic development and productivity of the OE suffix -isc in Middle English.
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Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, vol. 47.2-3 (2012), pp. 27-39