2024-03-28T09:06:11Zhttps://digitum.um.es/digitumoai/requestoai:digitum.um.es:10201/1003642021-01-05T00:09:42Zcom_10201_639com_10201_19459com_10201_3col_10201_100342
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Wright, Laura
2021-01-04T12:05:07Z
2021-01-04T12:05:07Z
2020
Vol. 20 (2),2020 Standardisation and Change in Early Modern English: Empirical Approaches
1578-7044
http://hdl.handle.net/10201/100364
https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.370551
This paper is about identifying a nuance of social meaning which, I demonstrate, was conveyed in the Early and Late Modern period by the suffix -oon. The history of non-native suffix -oonis presented by means of assembling non-native suffix -oonvocabulary in date order and sorting according to etymology.It turns out that standard non-native -oonwords (which are few) tended to stabilise early and be of Romance etymology.A periodof enregisterment,c.1750–1850,is identified by means of scrutiny of non-native -oonusagein sixty novels,leading to the conclusion that four or more non-native -oons in a literary work signalled vulgarity.A link is made between the one-quarter non-European -oons brought to English via colonial trade, and the use of such -oons by non-noble merchants, traders and their customers splashing outon luxury foreign commodities.Thus, it is found that a suffix borrowed from Romance languages in the Middle English period received fresh input duringthe Early Modern period via non-European borrowings, resulting in sociolinguistic enregistermentin the Late Modern period.
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Suffix
Romance etymology
Non-European etymology
Early Modern English
Late Modern English
Vocabulary
-oon
On Early and Late Modern EnglishNon-native Suffix -oon
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