On the interaction between semantics and phonetic iconicity in evaluative morphology  

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Efthymiou, Angeliki

Jenis: Article from Journal
Dalam koleksi: SKASE: Journal of Theoretical Linguistics vol. 10 no. 1 (Jan. 2013), page 152-166.
Topik: Aktionsart; boundedness; connotative suffixes; evaluative morphology; Modern Greek; palatalization; phonetic iconicity; quantification; semelfactivity; sound-symbolic submorphemic elements
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The aim of this paper is to focus on three aspects of connotative suffixes (i.e. suffixes that can simultaneously encode descriptive and expressive meaning), namely their relation with phonetic iconicity, their semantics and their morphological properties. Evidence comes from three Modern Greek suffixes which follow the so-called glide formation rule and carry evaluative connotation, namely -iázo, -iá and -iáris. It is shown that a) the evaluative domain is not homogeneous, since it contains prototypical and non-prototypical members, b) connotative suffixes tend to have related sound shapes, which signal their deviation from formality, and c) aspectual and quantificational suffixes seem to have expressive functions.

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