How nouns turn into adjectives

Goethem, Kristel Van; Smet, Hendrik De

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“…In some cases, clipping of adjectival prefixoid formations also plays a role (e.g. D. reuze 'fantastic' < reuzeleuk 'very nice', bere 'idem' < beregoed 'very good'; see Norde & Van Goethem, 2015;Van Goethem & De Smet, 2014;Van Goethem & Hiligsman, 2014). A potential third source had been identified a few years earlier by Pittner & Berman (2006) and Berman (2009), who argued that free evaluative bombe, hammer, spitze 'great' etc.…”

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Battefeld¹,

Leuschner²,

Rawoens³

2018

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In languages with productive compounding like German, Dutch and Swedish, 'evaluative morphology' (cf. Bauer, 1997) raises intriguing issues of category status and change. The present contribution addresses category changes involving 'expressive compounds' (Meibauer, 2013) such as G. Hammerauftritt 'lit. hammer, i.e. great performance' or Mistwetter 'lit. dung, i.e. terrible weather', in which the nominal non-head has an evaluative function. The same morphemes, which we will henceforth refer to as 'evaluatives', can sometimes function as adjective intensifiers (G. hammerschön 'very pretty') and, more importantly, display free uses (G. hammer 'great, excellent', mist 'terrible, awful') which seem to be the result of recategorization from noun to adjective. The adjective status is not clear-cut, however, given that the general lack of inflection in the relevant grammatical contexts makes it difficult to unequivocally identify adjectival behaviour. We will therefore argue (i) that discrete categories in the highly dynamic domain of evaluative morphology in Germanic cannot be maintained, and (ii) that the emergence of new (defective) adjectives expressing evaluation should be seen as a productive process. Two loci of change prove crucial in this context: the non-head position of compounds and the predicative position.

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“…Drawing on previous research on noun-to-adjective category changes (Norde & Van Goethem, 2014Pittner & Berman, 2006;Berman, 2009;Van Goethem & De Smet, 2014;Van Goethem & Hiligsman, 2014, Van Goethem & Hüning, 2015,…”

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“…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.…”

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“…Van Goethem & De Smet 2014;Van Goethem & Hiligsmann 2014). een reuze feestje, een reuze probleem), maar is steeds positief geconnoteerd in zijn predicatieve gebruik (bv.…”

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Emancipatie van affixen en affixoïden

Norde

Goethem

2015

Nederlandse Taalkunde

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Emancipation of affixes and affixoids: degrammaticalization or lexicalization?Dutch is particularly rich in derivational morphology. It features a range of productive affixes and affixoids (morphemes which have a specialized meaning when used in compounds). In this paper we review different processes of emancipation (debonding) of both affixes and affixoids. Using a predefined set of criteria, based in part on Lehmann's parameters of grammaticalization, we outline morphological, syntactic and semantic characteristics of different affixes and affixoids that have undergone varying degrees of emancipation. The analysis shows that these parameters may be set differently in different morphological constructions, and also that they interact with one another in intricate ways. Some bound morphemes can only take scope over a phrase, whereas others come to be used as a free morpheme, which implies morphosyntactic changes as well as a change in semantics, e.g. hyperonymy or specialization. From the qualitative analysis based on our criteria it emerges that debonding of derivational affixes and affixoids is neither degrammaticalization nor lexicalization, but rather a process sui generis. １ InleidingAffixen zijn morfemen die per definitie altijd gebonden zijn aan een stam: dit geldt zowel voor prefixen of voorvoegsels (bv. ge-blaf, ver-kleur) als voor suffixen of achtervoegsels (bv. schoon-heid, blauw-achtig). Toch vertoont een aantal (derivationele) affixen een bepaalde graad van emancipatie; in

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Debonding and Clipping of Prefixoids in Germanic: Constructionalization or Constructional Change?

Norde

Goethem

2018

The Construction of Words

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How nouns turn into adjectives

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Emancipatie van affixen en affixoïden

Debonding and Clipping of Prefixoids in Germanic: Constructionalization or Constructional Change?

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