Evaluative morphology in the verbal domain
Complex verbs suffixed with -kVdik in Hungarian
So far, evaluative morphology has received less attention in the verbal domain than in the nominal and adjectival ones. This paper
shows that – besides frequentative morphemes like -gAt and preverbs like tele- ‘full’, le-
‘down’, fel ‘up’, etc. – in Hungarian events can be evaluated by means of the verbalizer suffix -kVdik. This
formation is unusual in evaluative morphology since it is a category-changing operation. The suffix -kVdik can be
attached to adjectives and to nouns expressing a profession or an occupation. Depending on the speaker’s intention, the
morphologically complex verb suffixed with -kVdik can attribute to the activity an evaluative, mostly pejorative
meaning. The paper suggests that this phenomenon goes beyond evaluative morphology and can be better analyzed in terms of
morphopragmatics.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Attested evaluative morphemes in the verbal domain: Hungarian data
- 3.Morphologically complex verbs with the suffix -kVdik
- 3.1The middle domain
- 3.2Form and history of the morpheme -kVd-ik
- 3.3Synchronic properties
- 4.Evaluative readings of deadjectival and denominal -kVdik verbs
- 4.1A category-changing evaluative morpheme
- 4.2Adjectival base
- 4.3Nominal base
- 4.4The subclass of -kVdik emotion verbs
- 5.Complex words formed with -kVdik in a morphopragmatic framework
- 6.Conclusions and perspectives
- Notes
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Abbreviations
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References
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Online sources
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