{"version":"1.0","type":"link","title":"Functional shift - Newikis","description":"In linguistics, functional shift occurs when an existing word takes on a new syntactic function. If no change in form occurs, it is called a zero derivation. 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…","provider_name":"Newikis","provider_url":"https://newikis.com","cache_age":86400}