1 Parasynthesis in Romance
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David Serrano-Dolader
Abstract
Parasynthesis is a word-formation process that Romance languages have inherited from Latin. It is characterised by the simultaneous and joint attachment of two affixes (a prefix and a suffix) to a lexical base. In order to define the concept of parasynthesis, several theoretical tenets (e.g., the transcategorisation power of prefixes, the binary branching hypothesis, etc.) must be taken into account. In Romance languages, verbs are the most representative cases of this morphological process; there are, however, other non-verbal formations that have been included in this category.
Abstract
Parasynthesis is a word-formation process that Romance languages have inherited from Latin. It is characterised by the simultaneous and joint attachment of two affixes (a prefix and a suffix) to a lexical base. In order to define the concept of parasynthesis, several theoretical tenets (e.g., the transcategorisation power of prefixes, the binary branching hypothesis, etc.) must be taken into account. In Romance languages, verbs are the most representative cases of this morphological process; there are, however, other non-verbal formations that have been included in this category.
Chapters in this book
- 1 Parasynthesis in Romance 1
- 2 Affix pleonasm 17
- 3 Interfixes in Romance 33
- 4 Linking elements in Germanic 55
- 5 Synthetic compounds in German 71
- 6 Particle verbs in Germanic 85
- 7 Noun-noun compounds in French 103
- 8 Verb-noun compounds in Romance 121
- 9 Co-compounds 145
- 10 Compounds and multi-word expressions in Slavic 171
- 11 Rules, patterns and schemata in word-formation 199
- 12 Word-formation and analogy 223
- 13 Productivity 247
- 14 Restrictions in word-formation 267
- 15 Argument-structural restrictions on word-formation patterns 287
- 16 Phonological restrictions on English word-formation 307
- 17 Morphological restrictions on English word-formation 337
- 18 Semantic restrictions on word-formation: the English suffix -ee 353
- 19 Dissimilatory phenomena in French word-formation 369
- 20 Closing suffixes 385
Chapters in this book
- 1 Parasynthesis in Romance 1
- 2 Affix pleonasm 17
- 3 Interfixes in Romance 33
- 4 Linking elements in Germanic 55
- 5 Synthetic compounds in German 71
- 6 Particle verbs in Germanic 85
- 7 Noun-noun compounds in French 103
- 8 Verb-noun compounds in Romance 121
- 9 Co-compounds 145
- 10 Compounds and multi-word expressions in Slavic 171
- 11 Rules, patterns and schemata in word-formation 199
- 12 Word-formation and analogy 223
- 13 Productivity 247
- 14 Restrictions in word-formation 267
- 15 Argument-structural restrictions on word-formation patterns 287
- 16 Phonological restrictions on English word-formation 307
- 17 Morphological restrictions on English word-formation 337
- 18 Semantic restrictions on word-formation: the English suffix -ee 353
- 19 Dissimilatory phenomena in French word-formation 369
- 20 Closing suffixes 385
