Morphological and syntactic processes of Noun to Adjective change: the case of Dutch 'luxe'

Marchand (1969) examines possible cases of lexical category change and distinguishes between two different types: (a) syntactic transposition of a word which is a purely grammatical matter and represents a regular syntactic pattern, e.g. government (in the sense of governmental) as in government job, and (b) derivation when a word changes its word or lexical class, a fact which is evident in form and syntactic behaviour and is irreversible, e.g. polar (Adjective) from pole (Noun). However, there are two important questions: (a) whether we can trace a cline between these two cases, and (b) what... Mehr ...