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On deverbal adjectives with -ish in English
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Abstract
This paper considers the evidence that the English suffix -ish (e.g. yellowish, baldish, ticklish, fivish, childish) can be attached to verbs,
making it more clitic-like than a true affix. We discuss competing hypotheses in this light and present new evidence from historical and
contemporary sources. In morphological theory, this can be interpreted as regarding -ish as a ‘cliticoid’, one step away from a true clitic on
the affix-clitic continuum.
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Jeroen van de Weijer
School of Foreign Languages, Shenzhen University, Nanhai Ave. 3688, Shenzhen 518060, China
Received 19 August 2020; received in revised form 3 March 2021; accepted 5 March 2021
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