Jenny Audring | Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
Geert Booij | Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
Ray Jackendoff | Tufts University | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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arise with respect to structure, productivity and meaning, and proposes a constructionist account that allows for a better
understanding of the issues. The central notion is the schema, a generalization over the structure of complex
words. In contrast to rules, whose main function is to generate new words, schemas motivate existing words by
marking their structure as non-arbitrary. We discuss the modelling options this gives us and apply them to the verbal
diminutives.
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