Article published in:
The Wealth and Breadth of Construction-Based ResearchEdited by Timothy Colleman, Frank Brisard, Astrid De Wit, Renata Enghels, Nikos Koutsoukos, Tanja Mortelmans and María Sol Sansiñena
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics 34] 2020
► pp. 199–212
Pleonastic complex words as functional amalgams
Laura A. Michaelis | University of Colorado Boulder
Syntactic amalgams are innovative phrasal constructions that combine otherwise incompatible subparts of other
constructions (Lambrecht 1988; Brenier and Michaelis
2005). We describe pleonastic formations like flavorize in English and ψηλαφ-ίζ(ω) [psilafízo]
‘palpate’ in Modern Greek as functional amalgams at the word level. We examine these formations through the lens of (function-oriented)
Sign-Based Construction Grammar (Sag 2012), arguing that once we see
derivational morphemes as signs, and sign combination as construction-driven rather than head-driven, we can describe such words as coercive
combinations that serve a variety of semiotic functions.
Keywords: verbalizers, implicit multiple exponence, word-level amalgams, coercion, Modern Greek, English
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.IME in English and Modern Greek
- 3.Headedness in morphology
- 4.A SBCG approach to derivational suffixes
- 5.Functional analysis of IME formations
- 5.1Word-level amalgams
- 5.2IME as construction-based selection
- 6.Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
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References
Published online: 28 May 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/bjl.00046.kou
https://doi.org/10.1075/bjl.00046.kou
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