PAG-, PAK- -------- Grammaticalization, Grammaticization
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Pale (as in [beyond the Pale] )
pacific, Pacify
page (in a book)
page (boy)
trepalium (a torture device)
pact, compact, peace
peasant
pagan ---------- all these words seem related, etymologically.
Tripalium or trepalium (derived from the Latin roots, "tri- / tres" and "pālus" – literally, "three stakes") is a Latin term believed to name a torture instrument consisting of "three stakes" (based on its literal
meaning), and commonly thought to be the source for several common
modern words.
The name [Treponema pallidum] comes from the Greek words trepo, which
means "rotate" or "turn", and ne¯ma, which means "thread". Treponema
pallidum is a bacterium that causes syphilis and other diseases.
[Treponema pallidum] looks like it can be shortened into [Trepalium]
he word pallidum comes from the Latin word pallidus, which means pale or colorless. The earliest known use of the noun pallidum was in 1900, in a dictionary by obstetrician William Dorland.
Pallidum is also a noun that refers to the inner pale yellow part of the lenticular nucleus. Synonyms of pallidum include globus pallidus and paleostriatum.
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the one kind of semantic shift i really enjoyed
learning about is [Grammaticization]
What is the difference between grammaticalization and grammaticization?
The difference seems to be how you frame the concept. From Hopper and Traugott's book, some linguists believe that grammaticalisation could be understood as 'entering the grammar of a language', i.e. 'becoming grammatical', which assumes that 'grammar' is an fixed entity which
things can enter and leave.
Grammaticisation, by contrast, focuses on the lexical item being grammaticalised itself - it's the process whereby this lexical item
becomes more and more narrow in distribution and the phrases containing
it become more and more formulaic, and eventually the item acts as a
functional word rather than a lexical one.
H&T do not commit to this distinction, but are merely explaining the
viewpoints of linguists who do differentiate between the two.
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