Exploring the polysemy of the Modern Greek prefix iper-

Derivational morphology in Modern Greek

“…Although several suffixes have been well studied regarding their semantic features, prefixes remain understudied.12 Prefixes may attach to nominal or verbal bases, but they predominate in verbal formations. In nominal bases, the major derivational categories created by the derivational prefixes in Modern Greek include, but are not limited to, the following: -Lexemes denoting negation, privation, or opposition, e.g., ίσος [ísos] 'equal; even' → άνισος [ánisos] 'uneven; unequal' (derivational prefix α(ν)-), κοινωνικός [cinonikós] 'social' → αντικοινωνικός [adicinonikós] 'antisocial' (cf., among others, Efthymiou 2008Efthymiou , 2014bEfthymiou , 2020Koutsoukos & Ralli 2023;Nikolaou 2016;Papanastasiou 2008bPapanastasiou , 2011bSetatos 1994).13 -Evaluatives, e.g., ευαίσθητος [evésθitos] 'sentimental' → υπερ-ευαίσθητος [iperevésθitos] 'oversentimental ' (cf., among others, Efthymiou 2003' (cf., among others, Efthymiou , 2015b' (cf., among others, Efthymiou ,c, 2017a' (cf., among others, Efthymiou ,b,c, 2019a' (cf., among others, Efthymiou ,b, 2023Efthymiou, Fragaki & Markos 2014Efthymiou & Gavriilidou 2003;Gavriilidou 2009Gavriilidou , 2013Gavriilidou , 2014a (Efthymiou 2001a(Efthymiou , 2002bRalli 2004Ralli , 2022aPapanastasiou 2012), e.g., λέ(ω) [léo] 'say ' → ξελέ(ω) [kseléo] 'unsay' . A well-studied category of preverbal elements is the so-called Ancient Greek prepositions (cf., among others, Babiniotis 1972;Bortone 2010;Clairis & Babiniotis 2005;Giannoula 2021;Méndez Dosuna 1997;Modern Greek Grammar 2018;Ralli 2002bRalli , 2004Ralli , 2013aRalli , 2022a…”

“…Most members of this category change the valency of the verbal base and/or add some semantic features (cf., among others, Efthymiou 2015a; Ralli 2004), e.g., ομολογώ [omoloɣó] 'confess' but εξομολογώ [eksomoloɣó] 'shrive' .14 Affixes that trace their origin to Classical Greek and have been introduced into Modern Greek through Katharevousa usually keep their original meanings, but they also develop new ones in Medieval times (Karantzola & Giannoulopoulou 2000, Papanastasiou 2011b). An interesting case is the prepositional prefix παρα-[para] which originally had only locational meaning, but it has developed new non-locational meanings during its diachronic evolution (Efthymiou 2016;Ralli 2004), e.g., δρόμος…”

“…Journal of Greek Linguistics 23 (2023) 215-286 affixes in Modern Greek.16 The most analyzed polysemous suffix is -ιά (cf., among others, Efthymiou 1995Efthymiou , 1996Efthymiou , 1997aEfthymiou ,b, 1999aModern Greek Grammar 2018: 132-133, Petrounias 1987). Efthymiou, Fragaki & Markos (2015a) There are also some suffixes that do not belong to large semantic groups but are quite productive and express various meanings. For example, the suffix -ί forms nouns denoting colors, e.g., βύσσινο [vísino] 'sour cherry' → βυσσιν-ί [visiní] 'maroon color' (Alexandri 2009;Anastassiadis-Symeonidis 1996a).…”

“…The semantic properties of Modern Greek derivational affixes have also been discussed within Lieber's (2004) decompositional system of lexical semantic representation which allows for the characterizing of the meanings of both lexemes and affixes. In particular, Efthymiou, Fragaki & Markos (2015a) have analyzed the polysemy of the prefix υπερ-within this framework, while Efthymiou (2011) has argued that all verb-forming suffixes share the same underlying semantic structure. In the same line, Charitonidis (2012b) analyzes the semantic structure of the Greek verb derivatives in -(ι)άζω57 and Charitonidis (2013Charitonidis ( , 2015b analyzes the semantic structure of the Greek verb prefixes απο-, εκ/εξ-, and ξε-.…”

Η Μορφολογία Της Κρητικής Διαλέκτου

“…μεταξύ άλλων, τις μελέτες των Ralli 2003c, Ράλλη 2005, Ευθυμίου 2003, Χειλά-Μαρκοπούλου 2014, Efthymiou, Fragaki & Markos 2015, Efthymiou 2016. Το παραπροήλθε μέσω της διαδικασίας της γραμματικοποίησης από την αρχαιοελληνική πρόθεση παρά (Ralli 2003c Η Δημελά (2009, 2010), για να εξηγήσει τη μετάβαση από το επίθετο ίσιος στο προθηματοειδές σιο-/σο-, υιοθετεί τη θεωρία της γραμματικοποίησης, όπως έχει προταθεί από τους Heine & Kuteva (2002.…”