Publications

Publication details [#64682]

Goethem, Kristel Van and Nikos Koutsoukos. 2018. “Morphological transposition” as the onset of recategorization: The case of luxe in Dutch. Linguistics 56 (6) : 1369–1412.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adjective | context | linguistics | morphological process | noun

Language as a subject

Dutch, Belgian | Dutch, Netherlandic

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LING/html

Annotation

Category change and recategorization processes have got renewed attention in recent years. This study centers on the shift from noun to adjective on the basis of a corpus-based study of the Dutch lexical item luxe ‘luxury; luxurious’. It presents a new type of category change, i.e. “morphological transposition”.