The History of -eer in English
Suffix Competition or Symbiosis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5900939 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zachary Dukic (0009-0001-8751-9029), Chris C Palmer (0000-0002-5202-5555) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 102 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Languages (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/languages9030102 |
| OpenAlex | W4392817753 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 42 |
Ecological models of competition have provided great explanatory power regarding synonymy in derivational morphology. Competition models of this type have certainly shown their utility, as they have demonstrated, among other things, the relevance of frequency measures, productivity, compositionality and analyzability when comparing the development of morphological constructions. There has been less consideration of alternative models that could be used to describe the historical co-development of suffixes that produce words with sometimes similar forms or meanings but are not inevitably or solely in competition. The symbiotic model proposed in this article may help answer larger questions in linguistics, such as how best to analyze certain multilingual morphological phenomena, including the emergence of semantically similar forms within the same language. The present study demonstrates the importance of a diachronic approach in situations of near-synonymy, as an understanding of semantic similarity necessitates a review of the available historical record. In particular, our study focuses on the case of the suffix -eer (e.g., marketeer) in English, analyzing its origins, semantics, compositionality, and historical development, including its symbiotic relationship to the similar suffix -er (e.g., marketer
Biology · Competition (biology · Linguistics · Suffix · Symbiosis · Computer Science · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Ecology · Paleontology · Philosophy
Constructionalization and Constructional Changes
Lexical Analysis
Language, Usage and Cognition
The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology
Morphological Productivity
Constructing a Language
Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language
Constructional Change in English
Morphology
Yearbook of Morphology 2001
The French Influence on Middle English Morphology
Studies in the History of the English Language IV
The Cambridge History of the English Language
Clarifying translanguaging and deconstructing named languages
New methods for analysing diachronic suffix competition across registers
Affixal rivalry and its purely semantic resolution among English derived adjectives
Arrivals and departures
English and French in England after 1362
Winners and Losers in the Context of Global Change
The Birth and Death of Affixes and Other Morphological Processes in English Derivation
Radical Construction Grammar
Construction Morphology, a brief introduction
Direct and indirect affix borrowing
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |