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Morphology and emotions across the world's languages
Edited by Maïa Ponsonnet and Marine Vuillermet
[Studies in Language 42:1] 2018
► pp. 202–225

Evaluative morphology in the verbal domain

Complex verbs suffixed with -kVdik in Hungarian

| Babeș–Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
| Université Lyon 2 & Laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage (CNRS & Université de Lyon)
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.
Keywords: evaluative morphology, morphopragmatics, verbal evaluatives, attenuation, pejoration
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
  • Abbreviations
  • References
  • Online sources
Published online: 19 April 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.00008.nem
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