WHEN PROPER NAMES BECOME VERBS: A SEMANTIC PERSPECTIVE

When Proper Names Become Verbs: A Semantic Perspective

Proper names Deep Fryers are good examples of the interaction between language and society.They are used to refer to specific and unique entities.Taking side with the thesis which states that proper names have a meaning, this article explores the evolution of the use of proper names as denominal verbs in English (boycott for instance) with a specif

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Memory for affixes in a long-lag priming paradigm

Psycholinguistic research on the processing of morphologically complex words has largely focused on debates about how/if lexical stems are recognized, stored, and retrieved.Comparatively little processing research has investigated similar issues for functional affixes.In Word or Lexeme Based Morphology (Aronoff 1994), affixes are not representation

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