Jean-Francois Prunet

List of John Benjamins publications for which Jean-Francois Prunet plays a role.

Article

Prunet, Jean-Francois and Ali Idrissi 2014 Overlapping morphologies in Arabic hypocoristicsThe Form of Structure, the Structure of Form: Essays in honor of Jean Lowenstamm, Bendjaballah, Sabrina, Noam Faust, Mohamed Lahrouchi and Nicola Lampitelli (eds.), pp. 177–192 | Article
We show that Arabic uses some regular suffixes to build hypocoristics, i.e., nicknames derived from proper names, after emptying these suffixes of (most of) their semantic and morphological content. This gives rise to overlapping morphologies in which a suffix has one function in the usual… read more