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Functional shift : ウィキペディア英語版 | Functional shift
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) is not well-defined, but it could be construed that conversion changes the lexical meaning and functional shift changes the syntactic meaning. Shakespeare uses functional shift, for example using a noun to serve as a verb. Researchers found that this technique allows the brain to understand what a word means before it understands the function of the word within a sentence.〔Liverpool University, UK (Reading Shakespeare has dramatic effect on human brain ), 18 December 2006〕〔University of Minnesota (Celebrating Shakespeare's Birthday ), 25 April 2014〕 ==References== 〔
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