Note 39 — Chapter X · THE INFLUENCE OF THE CHILD—continued

Semantic changes through ambiguous syntactic combinations have recently been studied especially by Carl Collin; see his Semasiologiska studier, 1906, and Le Développement de Sens du Suffixe -ATA, Lund, 1918, ch. iii and iv. Collin there treats especially of the transition from abstract to concrete nouns; he does not, as I have done above, speak of the rôle of the younger generation in such changes.