The morphology-pragmatics interface in Modern Greek compounding

• Authors: Chariton Charitonidis
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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

EN

lexical semantics; morphology-pragmatics interface; socio-expressive (pragmatic) heads; evaluative compounding; Modern Greek

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Journal: Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 51
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 27-73

Dates

received

2013-09-04

revised

2014-10-09

accepted

2014-11-09

online

2015-03-31

Contributors

author

Chariton Charitonidis

• University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/psicl-2015-0002