How nouns turn into adjectives. The emergence of new adjectives in French, English and Dutch through debonding processes

This study will focus on French, Dutch and English adjectives that arose through "debonding" from N+N- or N+A-compounds or compound-like sequences. Debonding is a type of degrammaticalization defined by Norde as "a composite change whereby a bound morpheme in a specific linguistic context becomes a free morpheme" (Norde 2009:186). It typically involves processes such as severance (i.e. decrease in bondedness), flexibilization (i.e. increase in syntactic freedom), scope expansion and recategorialization.

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