Lexical Semantics and Diachronic Morphology
The Development of -hood, -dom and -ship in the History of English
Samenvatting
A comprehensive study of the development of the three suffixes -hood, -dom and -ship in the history of English. It offers an investigation from Old English to Modern English based on data from annotated corpora that reveals that all three suffixes developed from nouns into today's suffixes building abstract nouns.

