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Title: On Early and Late Modern English Non-Native Suffix '-oon'
Language: English
Authors: Wright, Laura
Source: International Journal of English Studies. 2020 20(2):117-143.
Availability: University of Murcia. Department of English Philology Merced Campus, Calle Santo Cristo 1, Murcia 30071 Spain. Tel: +34-868-88-3406; Fax: +34-868-88-3409; e-mail: publicaciones@um.es; Web site: http://www.um.es/ijes
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 27
Publication Date: 2020
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Descriptors: Modern Languages, English, Suffixes, Etymology, Vocabulary, Descriptive Linguistics, Romance Languages, Linguistic Input, Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Language Usage
ISSN: 1578-7044
Abstract: 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 "-oon" is presented by means of assembling non-native suffix "-oon" vocabulary in date order and sorting according to etymology. It turns out that standard nonnative "-oon" words (which are few) tended to stabilise early and be of y. A period of enregisterment, c. 1750-1850, is identified by means of scrutiny of non-native "-oon" usage in 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 out on luxury foreign commodities. Thus, it is found that a suffix borrowed from Romance languages in the Middle English period received fresh input during the Early Modern period via non-European borrowings, resulting in sociolinguistic enregisterment in the Late Modern period.
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