Everything about Functional Shift totally explained
In
linguistics,
functional shift occurs when an existing word takes on a new
syntactic function. For example, the word
like, formerly only used as a
preposition in comparisons (as in "eats like a pig"), is now also used in the same way as the
subordinating conjunction as in many
dialects of English (as in "sounds like he means it"). The boundary between functional shift and
conversion (the derivation of a new word from an existing word of identical form) isn't well-defined.
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