Functional shift
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Functional shift
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In linguistics, functional shift occurs when an existing word takes on a new syntactic function. If no change in form occurs, it is called a zero derivation. For example, the word like, formerly only used as a preposition in comparisons, is now also used in the same way as the subordinating conjunction as in many dialects of English. The boundary between functional shift and conversion is not well-defined, but it could be construed that conversion changes the lexical meaning and functional shift
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Words taking on new syntactic functions, such as parts of speech
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_shift
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2024-01-23T14:40:55Z
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