Combinatorial patterns among italian evaluative affixes  

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Barbaresi, Lavinia Merlini

Jenis: Article from Journal
Dalam koleksi: SKASE: Journal of Theoretical Linguistics vol. 9 no. 1 (Jan. 2012), page 2-14.
Topik: Italian word-formation; affix ordering; lexicalization; iconicity; indexicality
Fulltext: Lavinia Merlini Barbaresi.pdf (162.99KB)

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This article is meant to investigate affix ordering and combinability in Italian, with special reference to evaluative /alterative affixes. This is a central issue among morphologists and is now receiving a renewed interest world-wide, especially directed at class-changing derivative affixes in typologically different languages. Evaluative affixes, however, are class-maintaining and their combinatorics shows extra elements of relevance, namely internal variability and mutual commutability. Affixes cannot be combined arbitrarily, but there seem to be certain restrictions at work that favour some and disfavour other combinations. I argue that their mutual selection and ordering cannot be attributed to a dominant principle but are variably motivated and constrained by phonological, morphological, semantic and pragmatic properties of both affixes and bases, often operating together. Etymology and processes of lexicalization, as well as the semiotic principles of iconicity and indexicality are frequently part of the explanatory frame of such phenomena and of their constraints. Sometimes, as we will see, the type of affix combinations may also be motivated by frequency and analogy

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