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Category Change from a Constructional PerspectiveEdited by Kristel Van Goethem, Muriel Norde, Evie Coussé and Gudrun Vanderbauwhede
[Constructional Approaches to Language 20] 2018
► pp. 229–262
Chapter 9Evaluative morphology in German, Dutch and Swedish
Constructional Networks and the Loci of Change
The separation or ‘debonding’ of prefixoids in informal language use in Germanic and the question whether spelling reflects re-categorization of such compound members as adjectives have recently been attracting increased attention among linguists. This contribution focuses on category changes involving lexical items with an evaluative function, both bound (prefixoids, loan prefixes) and unbound (bare nouns), that give rise to defective adjectives in German, Dutch and Swedish. This occurs via two loci of change: the non-head position in nominal and adjectival compounds and the predicative position in sentence constructions. The diverse items serving as ‘evaluatives’ are unified by one abstract schema for ‘evaluative compounds’ across these languages which is paradigmatically related to other, free uses of such items.
Keywords: compounding, evaluative morphology, prefixoids, loan prefixes, Germanic
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Theoretical preliminaries
- 2.1Sources of adjectival evaluatives
- 2.2Evaluative prefixoids
- 2.3Affixoids in construction morphology
- 2.4Abstract subschemata for evaluative compounds
- 3.Evaluatives in German, Dutch and Swedish
- 3.1Denominal evaluatives and nouns
- 3.1.1Distributional properties
- 3.1.2Compound vs. noun phrase: Evidence from spelling
- 3.1.3Predicative position
- 3.1.4Inflection
- 3.1.5Adverbial use
- 3.2Intensification of adjectives and adverbs
- 3.3Evaluative ‘loan prefixes’
- 3.1Denominal evaluatives and nouns
- 4.Constructional networks
- 4.1Paradigmatic relationships
- 4.2Source constructions and formal variation
- 5.Conclusions
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Published online: 22 March 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.20.09bat
https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.20.09bat
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