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Historical Linguistics: A cognitive grammar introduction
Margaret E. Winters
[Not in series 227] 2020
► pp. 119–142

Chapter 6
Morphological change

Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
    • 1.1Morphology and the morpheme
  • 2.Word-level morphology
    • 2.1Coinage through affixes
    • 2.2Reanalysis across boundaries
  • 3.Free and bound morphemes
    • 3.1Grammaticalization
    • 3.2New free morphemes from bound
  • 4.Analogical change
    • 4.1Examples
      • 4.1.1English plurals
      • 4.1.2English verbs
    • 4.2Kuryɬowicz’s paper on analogy
  • 5.Paradigmatic and other systematic change
    • 5.1Series and semantically related words
    • 5.2Paradigmatic changes
    • 5.3A return to Sturtevant’s paradox
  • 6.Concluding comments
  • Exercises
  • For further investigation
  • Notes