Bound lexical formatives: Lexicon, grammar or somewhere in between. An FDG perspective

Muñoz, Carmen Portero

doi:10.1515/ling-2016-0023

Linguistics

2016

DOI: 10.1515/ling-2016-0023

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Bound lexical formatives: Lexicon, grammar or somewhere in between. An FDG perspective

Carmen Portero Muñoz

Abstract: This article explores the use of affix-like elements of dubious status in word formation and proposes an analysis within Functional Discourse Grammar (Hengeveld and Mackenzie 2008.

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“…Cross-linguistically, "somewhere between lexicon and grammar" is a familiar issue involving causativization (e.g., Genee 2016;Muñoz 2016).…”

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Mechanisms of productivity in word formation: Transitivity alternations in Japanese

Kitagawa

2021

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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The extensive system of Japanese transitivity alternations (TrAlt) has inspired a great number of noteworthy works. This paper, adopting the theoretical apparatus of the Strong Minimalist thesis and focusing on the " in-between voice" (i.e., between the idiosyncratic lexical and the morpho-syntactic) characteristics of the TrAlt, aims to explicate its productivity phenomena. The paper offers detailed and novel analyses of transitivity suffixes -ar (a lexical passive) and -e (which has sometimes been characterized as a "causative-passive" suffix), and delineates the mechanisms of productivity by closely examining the interactive functions of these two suffixes and the verbal roots (R's) that host them.

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“…Cross-linguistically, "somewhere between lexicon and grammar" is a familiar issue involving causativization (e.g., Genee 2016;Muñoz 2016).…”

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Mechanisms of productivity in word formation: Transitivity alternations in Japanese

Kitagawa

2021

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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Similatives are Manners, comparatives are Quantities (except when they aren’t)

Giomi

2022

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This article proposes a fine-grained semantic analysis of similative and comparative constructions within the framework of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG). The core idea is that, when used in their prototypical modifying functions, the two types of constructions are built upon two semantic frames that share an identical structure but differ as regards the semantic category that underlies the whole modifying expression – whence the title of the article: similatives are Manners and comparatives are Quantities. At the same time, I argue that similatives can also be put to modifying and predicative uses in which they do not express a Manner but a Configurational Property (i.e., a “nuclear predication”) and that comparatives do not express a Quantity when occurring as arguments of lexical(ized) ditransitive predicates like prefer or would rather, nor when the two terms of the comparison are introduced by a specific type of temporal expression. Finally, the paper refines previous FDG approaches to the alternation between analytic and synthetic expression of comparison in such languages as English and Latin, proposing that the English comparative suffix -er is liable to being modified by narrow-scope measure expressions and is therefore a partly lexical element and not a fully grammaticalized marker of comparison.

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Derivational morphology and the lexicon-grammar competition in Functional Discourse Grammar: An overview

Muñoz

2018

Word Structure

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Bound lexical formatives: Lexicon, grammar or somewhere in between. An FDG perspective

Abstract: This article explores the use of affix-like elements of dubious status in word formation and proposes an analysis within Functional Discourse Grammar (Hengeveld and Mackenzie 2008.

Cited by 4 publications

References 9 publications

Mechanisms of productivity in word formation: Transitivity alternations in Japanese

Mechanisms of productivity in word formation: Transitivity alternations in Japanese

Similatives are Manners, comparatives are Quantities (except when they aren’t)

Derivational morphology and the lexicon-grammar competition in Functional Discourse Grammar: An overview

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