Efthymiou, Angeliki and Fragaki, Georgia and Markos, Angelos (2015) Exploring the meaning and productivity of a polysemous prefix. Acta Linguistica Hungarica, 62 (4). pp. 447-476. ISSN 1216-8076
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Abstract
This paper follows a corpus-based approach to the meaning and productivity of the Modern Greek prepositional prefix para-. A semantic categorization of the prefix is proposed and its productivity is measured across semantic categories, registers, text types and grammatical categories. Para- was found to be more productive in non-locational and evaluative meanings. Its most productive meaning is excess, while the locational meaning of proximity still remains strong. It is also more productive in written than spoken registers and the grammatical category of nouns. The findings of the study can have implications about the prefix’s ongoing grammaticalization and its affixal status.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > P0 Philology. Linguistics / filológia, nyelvészet |
| Depositing User: | László Sallai-Tóth |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Jul 2016 10:20 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Dec 2017 00:15 |
| URI: | http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/37330 |
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