Pejorative Suffixes and Combining Forms in English
José A. Sánchez Fajardo
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 222] 2022. xvi, 229 pp.
José A. Sánchez Fajardo
List of John Benjamins publications for which José A. Sánchez Fajardo plays a role.
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Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
2024 Chapter 5. Exploring linguistic competition in English derivatives ending in ‑ ie and ‑ o through a cognitive-onomasiological approach Competition in Word-Formation, Bagasheva, Alexandra, Akiko Nagano and Vincent Renner (eds.), pp. 139–175 | Chapter
This study investigates the issue of linguistic competition by analysing a dataset comprised of ‑ie/-o doublets, e.g. kiddie/kiddo, weirdie/weirdo. The analysis is based on the key tenets of the onomasiological approach to word-formation (Štekauer 1998) supplemented by the prototypical approach… read more
2021 On nonce echo constructions expressing disapproval and annoyance: A contrastive analysis of colloquial phrases in English and Spanish Languages in Contrast 21:2, pp. 275–297 | Article
The aim of this paper is to explore and contrast the morphosyntactic and semantic features of two equivalent nonce echo constructions (NECs) expressing disapproval and annoyance (i.e. don’t (you) X me and ni X ni Y) in colloquial English and Spanish. A NEC is defined as a reactive clause… read more
2020 Iconicity and word-formation: An examination of Adj+ie/y nominalisations through a Bidirectional Conceptualisation Model The Wealth and Breadth of Construction-Based Research, Colleman, Timothy, Frank Brisard, Astrid De Wit, Renata Enghels, Nikos Koutsoukos, Tanja Mortelmans and María Sol Sansiñena (eds.), pp. 332–344 | Article
This article aims to encourage a discussion of how evaluative morphemes conform to the principles of iconicity and Construction Grammar through the examination of English Adj+ie/y nominalisations (e.g. brownie, softie). Our analysis of the Adj+ie/y paradigm investigates conceptual processes that… read more
2018 The pragmalinguistic dimensions of cultural borrowing: A case study in Cuban Spanish International Journal of Language and Culture 5:1, pp. 112–129 | Article
The concept of ‘cultural borrowing’ has been associated with the concept of interlinguistic borrowing, and not necessarily cultural diffusion, which might reveal typological disparities and conceptual incongruence. This article is thus aimed at examining the concept of cultural borrowing, in… read more