De l’instabilité du sens des composés devenir d’un élément en composition : exemple de gate
Due to constant changes in reality, our vocabulary must keep pace and evolve. In order to describe new phenomena, it adopts new terms which are often the result of a complete or partial borrowing from existing words. The human tendency is often to establish a relationship between the unknown and the...
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| author | Émilie Clauzure |
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| description | Due to constant changes in reality, our vocabulary must keep pace and evolve. In order to describe new phenomena, it adopts new terms which are often the result of a complete or partial borrowing from existing words. The human tendency is often to establish a relationship between the unknown and the familiar.Regarding affixation and compounding, the two chief processes of word-formation, the latter has in recent times been regarded with favour and proves to be most innovative.This paper focuses on the base gate, its first use in the compound Water-gate, and analyses the various shifts in meaning it has experienced since then. |
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