Part of
Spanish Word Formation and Lexical CreationEdited by José Luis Cifuentes Honrubia and Susana Rodríguez Rosique
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 1] 2011
► pp. 425–436
This chapter approaches the lexigenetic processes of deverbalization. It raises the question whether we simply come across words as we speak or, rather, use them as a starting point. Although there is a feeling to believe the former and to argue that there are parallel predicactantial processes, both analytical and synthetic, this paper still attempts to comprehend the process of production of new words in which the signifies, in a dynamic sense, are successively immersed within a continuum, between two states of synchrony. Keywords: lexigenetic processes, deverbalization, conceptualization