Nominalized inflectional morphemes

[Gordon, Matthew J.]

A fairly recent example of a derivational morpheme becoming nominal is "un" as used in the 7up ads of a few years ago (e.g., Are you an un?).

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Subject:             Nominalized inflectional morphemes

The word "bus", from the Latin "omnibus", is curious in that it's a
nominalized inflectional morpheme -- the ablative (I believe) of "omni".

Can anyone think of any similar cases?

Cheers,
Scott


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