A morphosemantic investigation of diminutive verbs in French and Modern Greek

• Main Author: Efthymiou, Angeliki
• Format: Online
• Language: English
• Published: Mediterranean Morphology Meetings (MMM) 2017
• Subjects: 0; suspended affixation; Lexical Integrity Hypothesis; derivational suffixes; coordination; constructed words; L2 Greek; prefix; conceptual salience; consistency judgement; roots; Hebrew; Spanish; cross-linguistic; diminutives; verbs; French; Modern Greek; motion events; typological change; Latin linguistics; sytem; usage; reciprocals; reflexives; templates; Hebrew; collective and distributive; root; features; morphology; periphrasis; compound formation; morphological productivity; productivity measures; corpus-based statistical methods; lexical integrity; autonomous morphology; base types; sign language; two-handed signs; motivation in phonology; duality of patterning; lexicalization; memorization; adjective-noun combinations; compounding; Italian; overabundance; number inflection

Driven by a shortage of studies of evaluative verbs from a contrastive perspective, this paper examines French and Modern Greek diminutive verbs with the aim of shedding light on their morphosemantic characteristics. After an overview of the recent literature on evaluative morphology, I present an a...