How nouns turn into adjectives. The emergence of new adjectives in French, English and Dutch through debonding processes KU Leuven
© John Benjamins Publishing Company. This study focuses on French, English and Dutch adjectives that arise through debonding from N+N (and N+A) compounds or compound-like sequences (e.g. the adjectival uses of English 'key' and French clé "key"). Debonding is a type of degrammaticalization defined by Norde as "a composite change whereby a bound morpheme in a specific linguistic context becomes a free morpheme" (Norde, 2009: 186). We investigate ...