Essays about: "Yiu Tong Wong"

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  1. 1. An Escap-ee from French to English who will never return : A semantic and syntactic study of the -ee suffix in English

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur

    Author : Yiu Tong Wong; [2017]
    Keywords : Contextual anchoring; derivational morpheme; ergativity; semantic roles; Kontextförankring; derivationsmorfem; ergativitet; semantiska roller;

    Abstract : The aim of this paper is to investigate the semantic and syntactic properties of the -­ee suffix in English. The -­ee suffix was borrowed from the French ‑­é suffix during the late Middle Ages, when French started to exert its linguistic influence on English. READ MORE