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- Title
Pleonastic complex words as functional amalgams.
- Authors
Koutsoukos, Nikos; Michaelis, Laura A.
- Abstract
Syntactic amalgams are innovative phrasal constructions that combine otherwise incompatible subparts of other constructions (Lambrecht 1988; Brenier and Michaelis 2005). We describe pleonastic formations like flavorize in English and ψηλαφ-ίζ(ω) [psilafízo] 'palpate' in Modern Greek as functional amalgams at the word level. We examine these formations through the lens of (function-oriented) Sign-Based Construction Grammar (Sag 2012), arguing that once we see derivational morphemes as signs, and sign combination as construction-driven rather than head-driven, we can describe such words as coercive combinations that serve a variety of semiotic functions.
- Subjects
CONSTRUCTION grammar; VOCABULARY; MORPHEMICS
- Publication
Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 2020, Vol 34, Issue 1, p199
- ISSN
0774-5141
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/bjl.00046.kou