LME -ship(e)
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2006
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
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In the paper I attempt to present the semantic evolution of the suffix -ship(e) from Early to Late
Middle English. The major development in Late Middle English was the replacement of the
dominant EME sense ‘a quality’ in a fairly large number of derivatives by one of the originally
minor senses, i.e. ‘a status, rank, an office’. The original EME sense ‘a condition, state of being’,
however, was commonly preserved in Late Middle English. The suffix was highly productive in
the period not only in new coinages of native origin but also in Scandinavian and French hybrids.
It appeared in all the dialects.
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Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2006, 42: 179-187.