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The Fine-grained Structure of the Lexical Area: Gender, appreciatives and nominal suffixes in Spanish
Antonio Fábregas
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 39] 2024
► pp. 182–227

Chapter 6
Appreciatives in verbs

Verbal interfixation

Article outline
  • 6.1The core argument in this chapter
  • 6.2The empirical properties of verbal interfixes
    • 6.2.1Morphological properties
    • 6.2.2Aspectual properties
    • 6.2.3Argument structure
    • 6.2.4Semantic properties
  • 6.3The conative alternation and verbal interfixes
  • 6.4Analysis
    • 6.4.1Verbalisers without verbal interfixes
    • 6.4.2Why only these interfixes
    • 6.4.3Manners and appreciative morphemes
    • 6.4.4Step-by-step derivation
    • 6.4.5On the absence of high appreciative morphemes in the verbal domain
  • Notes