The chapter is dedicated to parasynthetic compounding, a word-formation phenomenon consisting of the merger of two lexical stems (forming a nonexistent compound) with a derivational suffix. On the basis of several classes of data pertaining to Slavic and Romance, a formal analysis of the phenomenon in question is offered. It is shawn that a configurational analysis of these (pseudo)compound-affixed forms formulated along the lines of Ackema and Neeleman (2004) which applies a severe mapping between the morphosyntactic and semantic structure, is not only able to account for the challenging data at issue, but also refines our comprehension of the synthetic compounding phenomena commonly attested in most I.E. languages.
A. Bisetto, C. Melloni (2010). Parasynthetic compounds: Data and theory. AMSTERDAM : John Benjamins.
Parasynthetic compounds: Data and theory
BISETTO, ANTONIETTA;
2010
Abstract
The chapter is dedicated to parasynthetic compounding, a word-formation phenomenon consisting of the merger of two lexical stems (forming a nonexistent compound) with a derivational suffix. On the basis of several classes of data pertaining to Slavic and Romance, a formal analysis of the phenomenon in question is offered. It is shawn that a configurational analysis of these (pseudo)compound-affixed forms formulated along the lines of Ackema and Neeleman (2004) which applies a severe mapping between the morphosyntactic and semantic structure, is not only able to account for the challenging data at issue, but also refines our comprehension of the synthetic compounding phenomena commonly attested in most I.E. languages.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
