{"id":486,"date":"2007-09-06T18:12:31","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T17:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/06\/degrammaticalization\/"},"modified":"2007-09-06T18:12:31","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T17:12:31","slug":"degrammaticalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=486","title":{"rendered":"Degrammaticalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Degrammaticalization, a word I stumbled across on <a href=\"http:\/\/mr-verb.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/degrammaticalization-as-liberation.html\">this blog<\/a> today, is the process through which  grammatical affixes become independent words.<\/p>\n<p>A good example is <em>ish<\/em>, which started off as a suffix on words like longish, shortish, etc. Then became an enclitic &#8211; an affix that can be detached from the words it would normally be attached to, and stuck on to other words &#8211; and finally started to be used on its own. More examples of degrammaticalization include <em>esque<\/em>, <em>ism<\/em>, <em>pro<\/em>, <em>con<\/em>, <em>anti<\/em>, <em>ette<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In Esperanto, quite a few affixes can be used as independent words. The suffix <em>-ig<\/em>, for example, indicates the cause or bringing about of action or state, e.g. <em>blankigi<\/em>, to whiten, from <em>blanka<\/em>, white. When used on its own as the verb <em>igi<\/em>, it means &#8216;to cause&#8217;. This appears to be a kind of deliberate, planned degrammaticalization.<\/p>\n<p>Can you think of any other examples of degrammaticalization in English or other languages?<\/p>\n<p>Free the bound morphemes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Degrammaticalization, a word I stumbled across on this blog today, is the process through which grammatical affixes become independent words. A good example is ish, which started off as a suffix on words like longish, shortish, etc. Then became an enclitic &#8211; an affix that can be detached from the words it would normally be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,105,117,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-esperanto","category-grammar","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}