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Romance Suffix -tor Polysemy Analysis by sdvsdvds is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This document discusses the meanings and uses of the Latin suffix -tor and its counterparts in Romance languages. It notes that while -tor was purely agentive in Latin, in modern Romance languages it can also form instrument nouns and in some cases locative nouns. Previous explanations have attributed this to a meaning extension during Proto-Romance, but the author aims to show this is not the case. The multifunctionality is instead due to factors like sound change, borrowing, ellipsis, and analogy. The doc
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