A constructional account of French -clé ‘key’ and Dutch sleutel- ‘key’ as in mot-clé / sleutelwoord ‘key word’

Abstract

A constructional account of French-clé 'key' and Dutch sleutel-'key' as in mot-clé / sleutelwoord 'key word' 1 1 This paper is a revised version of a conference paper given in French (Amiot & Van Goethem 2010). 2 Since bound forms such as stok-'lit. stick' and-boer 'lit. farmer' still have an independent counterpart, contrary to true affixes, authors such as Meesters (2004) and Booij (2009) prefer treating them as semi-affixes or affixoids: "morphemes which look like parts of compounds, and do occur as lexemes, but have a specific and more restricted meaning when used as part of a compound" (Booij 2009: 208). However, such an analysis raises at least one fundamental question: are the nouns stok and boer still the same "morphemes" as stok-and boer-as components of, respectively, the stok-A / N-boer constructions? Semantically, they do not seem to have any common feature. For instance, the noun boer means 'farmer', while the bound form-boer appears in complex nouns denoting sellers/ grocers (1b).

Cette mesure est-elle vraiment clé? A constructional approach to categorial gradience

“…As already suggested by Amiot and Van Goethem (2012), the adjectival uses of clé, and other French N2s occurring in similar constructions (see Section 1), could be seen as the result of an interaction or blending between the, closely related, morphological [[N][N]] N and syntactic [[N][AP]] NP constructions. As already suggested by Amiot and Van Goethem (2012), the adjectival uses of clé, and other French N2s occurring in similar constructions (see Section 1), could be seen as the result of an interaction or blending between the, closely related, morphological [[N][N]] N and syntactic [[N][AP]] NP constructions.…”

“…The lack of cohesion of French N+N sequences with a recurrent and qualifying N2, and hence the difficulties for their classification, has already been observed and discussed by Amiot and Van Goethem (2012) and Van Goethem (2012), taking French clé 'key' as a case study. In this paper, I will elaborate upon the same case study by carrying out a detailed investigation of the actual extent and the degree of acceptability of the adjectival uses of French clé on the one hand, and by accounting for this evolution within the Construction Grammar framework (cf.…”

Emancipatie van affixen en affixoïden

“…Aarts 2007, Amiot & Van Goethem 2012, Denison 2001, Van Goethem & De Smet 2014. In (52a), bij voorbeeld, heeft reuze betrekking op de volledige nominale groep megalithische steenblokken.…”

How nouns turn into adjectives

“…'that shark is hammer') (cf. Amiot and Van Goethem 2012). 2 The opposition is comparable to that between qualifying and classifying or relational adjectives: while the former are gradable (7a) and can be used predicatively (7b-c), the latter are not gradable (8a, 8c) and are only used attributively (8b) (Bache 2000: 160-162, Haeseryn et al 1997: 387, Halliday 1994: 180, Riegel et al 1999 In that light, the qualifying function of the nouns we are looking at is an important trigger in their reanalysis as qualifying adjectives.…”