Debonding of Dutch intensifying prefixoids (reuze, top, klasse): A multiple source account

Debonding of Dutch intensifying prefixoids: a multiple source account In this study, I will investigate how Dutch prefixoids (with a nominal origin) develop adjectival and/or adverbial uses through debonding, i.e. "a composite change whereby a bound morpheme in a specific linguistic context becomes a free morpheme" (Norde 2009: 186). The process typically involves severance (i.e. decrease in bondedness), flexibilization (i.e. increase in syntactic freedom), scope expansion and possibly recategorialization and resemanticization. Debonding applies to clitics, inflectional and derivational affixe... Mehr ...