Productivity and graduality in the layered structure of the wordopaque word-formation in old english

  1. Carmen Novo Urraca
  2. Ana Elvira Ojanguren López
Revista:
Revista española de lingüística aplicada

ISSN: 0213-2028

Año de publicación: 2020

Volumen: 33

Número: 1

Páginas: 202-226

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.1075/RESLA.17058.URR DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Otras publicaciones en: Revista española de lingüística aplicada

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Resumen

This article deals with two theoretical aspects of lexical derivation, productivity and graduality. After a discussion of transparency and opaqueness in Old English word-formation, it focuses on lexical productivity and puts forward a typology of recursive phenomena. On the basis of this typology, the morphological template of the Layered Structure of the Word is revised. The main conclusion is that a more diachronically oriented analysis is likely to opt for a decompositional template, whereas a more synchronically directed study which seeks typological validity will probably favour the template with one functional slot. If the focus is on diachronic linguistics, a template based on minimal constituent analysis can guarantee a detailed description of the derivational steps of the word, including non-affixal derivation and semantically opaque affixes.

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This research has been supported through the grant FFI2014-59110 (MINECO).

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