Items for "incipient grammaticalization"

On the borderline between lexicon and grammar: confixes in Modern Greek and Italian

This article examines confixes, a type of word-forming elements between lexical stems and affixes. While confixes carry lexical meaning, confixing changes the constituent order in the word so that the internal word structure resembles the constituent order typical of derivation...

Keywords: confix, International Scientific Vocabulary, secretion, model-word, incipient grammaticalization