Free Again: A Potential Functional Shift?
The expanded use is noted of adjectival free when noncompounded (eg, Polident Free Denture Adhesive) to include the meaning previously associated with the bound suffix form -free (eg, sugarfree 'without sugar'). It is indicated that free in these noncompounded contexts is becoming part of...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | American speech 1998-04, Vol.73 (1), p.112-112 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | The expanded use is noted of adjectival free when noncompounded (eg, Polident Free Denture Adhesive) to include the meaning previously associated with the bound suffix form -free (eg, sugarfree 'without sugar'). It is indicated that free in these noncompounded contexts is becoming part of the name of the product (eg, Pepsi Free), thus functionally transitioning from an adjective to a noun. B. Gadalla |
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| ISSN: | 0003-1283 1527-2133 |
| DOI: | 10.2307/455931 |