I'll summarize just one of her analyses, that of abstract noun suffixes, to give a sense of how she approaches the data.
The purpose of this section is both to outline the main tenets of this approach, and to indicate how it will be developed to account for the abstract noun time.
Finally, the semantics of the different abstract noun suffixes is compared in search of synonymy (co-functionality) and possible gaps in the system which might explain (predict?) future developments.
I believe that the participle is always better than the abstract noun.
Let me give an example of a perfect abstract noun that people bandy about.
I always suspect arguments which depend upon qualifying an abstract noun by an abstract adjective.
This abstract noun is formed from the adjective "trinus" (three each, threefold, triple), as the word "unitas" is the abstract noun formed from "unus" (one).
The latter word is the abstract noun derived from "var", which is an adjective meaning existing or present.
