Remarks on competition and blocking of affixes: the case of nominalizations
This paper exploits morphological and semantic phenomena underlying the suffixation, by focusing on Portuguese event-nominalizations, in the light of the Distributed Morphology framework (HALLE & MARANTZ, 1993). First, this case-study discusses the status of suffixation as a general process...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) |
| Repositorio: | Cadernos de Estudos Linguísticos |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br:article/8655303 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/cel/article/view/8655303 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Nominalizations Suffixes Distributed morphology. Nominalizações Sufixos Morfologia distribuída. |
| Sumario: | This paper exploits morphological and semantic phenomena underlying the suffixation, by focusing on Portuguese event-nominalizations, in the light of the Distributed Morphology framework (HALLE & MARANTZ, 1993). First, this case-study discusses the status of suffixation as a general process of word formation involving change of category and raises questions on the motivation to the great inventory of BP nominalizers. Secondly, the present work shows that, at least, a subset of suffixes triggers some semantic effect on the root/structure which they occur with, but such a semantic contribution must not be misinterpreted as aspect, as it is claimed by some authors. Finally, this paper makes some remarks on the best way for the system to accommodate the occurrence of different suffixes with both semantic and purely morphological motivation. |
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