Evaluative morphology is the field of word formation which deals with diminutives, augmentatives, pejoratives, and amelioratives. Even if this issue has been widely studied in the last decades, what is still missing is a definition of what can be included in the domain of evaluative morphology. This article aims at filling this gap, sketching a clear definition of evaluative construction. Moreover, the article (anche the whole book it is part of) has the ambitions of mapping the state of the art in the field of evaluative morphology, of avoiding a biased approach to evaluative morphology that presents it merely on the basis of a single theoretical framework, of looking specifically at evaluative morphology phenomena from a cross-linguistic perspective.
1 Introduction: Why Evaluative Morphology?
Nicola Grandi;
2015
Abstract
Evaluative morphology is the field of word formation which deals with diminutives, augmentatives, pejoratives, and amelioratives. Even if this issue has been widely studied in the last decades, what is still missing is a definition of what can be included in the domain of evaluative morphology. This article aims at filling this gap, sketching a clear definition of evaluative construction. Moreover, the article (anche the whole book it is part of) has the ambitions of mapping the state of the art in the field of evaluative morphology, of avoiding a biased approach to evaluative morphology that presents it merely on the basis of a single theoretical framework, of looking specifically at evaluative morphology phenomena from a cross-linguistic perspective.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
