The agent-instrument-place "polysemy" of the suffix -TOR in Romance

Franz Rainer

The agent-instrument-place "polysemy" of the suffix -TOR in Romance

Franz Rainer

Publikation: Wissenschaftliche Fachzeitschrift › Originalbeitrag in Fachzeitschrift › Begutachtung

Abstract

This article shows that, contrary to received opinion, the instrumental and locative meaning of the Romance descendants of Latin -TOR are non the result of semantic extension, but rather of ellipsis, homonymization, analogy, and borrowing.

Originalsprache	Englisch
Seiten (von - bis)	8 - 32
Fachzeitschrift	Language Typology and Universals / Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung
Volume	64
Ausgabenummer	1
Publikationsstatus	Veröffentlicht - 1 Nov. 2011

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