On deverbal adjectives with --'ish' English

• Jeroen van de Weijer ^[1]
  1. [1] Shenzhen University

     Shenzhen University

     China

     
• Localización: Lingua: International review of general linguistics, ISSN 0024-3841, Nº 257, 2021
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper considers the evidence that the English suffix -ish (e.g. yellowish, baldish, ticklish, fivish, childish) can be attached to verbs, making it more clitic-like than a true affix. We discuss competing hypotheses in this light and present new evidence from historical and contemporary sources. In morphological theory, this can be interpreted as regarding -ish as a ‘cliticoid’, one step away from a true clitic on the affix-clitic continuum