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The morphology-pragmatics interface in Modern Greek compounding
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Chariton Charitonidis
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March 31, 2015
Abstract
This study deals with the morphology-pragmatics interface in Modern Greek compounding. The object of investigation are 64 compounds explicitly marked for stance. It is shown that the linking of denotational (semantic and/or categorial) and socioexpressive (pragmatic) heads defines the different classes of compounds in a highly restrictive manner. The threefold negative socio-expressive structure of the verbal derivatives in -(i)áz(o) shows up in the compounds as well. It is concluded that, in both verbal derivation and compounding, the morphology-pragmatics interface recruits specific denotational structures for its expression.
Keywords: lexical semantics; morphology-pragmatics interface; socio-expressive (pragmatic) heads; evaluative compounding; Modern Greek
Received: 2013-9-4
Revised: 2014-10-9
Accepted: 2014-11-9
Published Online: 2015-3-31
©2015 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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Keywords for this article
lexical semantics;
morphology-pragmatics interface;
socio-expressive (pragmatic) heads;
evaluative compounding;
Modern Greek
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