[Ads-l] WOTY candidate: "self-partnered"
Laurence Horn
laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Nov 8 01:30:33 UTC 2019
And, connecting with our earlier thread, it’s a participle with no corresponding verb (although I can imagine it spawning—by amniocentesis, of course—a back-formed verb).
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/nov/06/consciously-uncoupled-the-joy-of-self-partnership
https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/11/emma-watson-says-she-is-self-partnered-not-single.html
https://mashable.com/article/emma-watson-self-partnered-discourse/
LH
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