Extravagant “fake” morphemes in Dutch. Morphological productivity, semantic profiles and categorical flexibility

This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively. ; Dutch features several morphemes with “privative” semantics that occur as left-hand members in compounds (e.g., imitatieleer ‘imitation leather’, kunstgras ‘artificial grass’, nepjuwelen ‘fake jewels’). Some of these “fake” morphemes display great categorical flexibility and innovative adjectival uses. Nep, for instance, is synchronically attested as an inflected adjective (e.g., neppe cupcake ‘fake cupcake’)... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Van Goethem, Kristel
Norde, Muriel
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
Verlag/Hrsg.: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Schlagwörter: compounding / privative semantics / productivity / debonding / Semantic Vector Spaces / multiple distinctive collexeme analysis / Dutch / 400 Sprache / ddc:400
Sprache: Englisch
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Link(s) : http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/18452/27986

This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively. ; Dutch features several morphemes with “privative” semantics that occur as left-hand members in compounds (e.g., imitatieleer ‘imitation leather’, kunstgras ‘artificial grass’, nepjuwelen ‘fake jewels’). Some of these “fake” morphemes display great categorical flexibility and innovative adjectival uses. Nep, for instance, is synchronically attested as an inflected adjective (e.g., neppe cupcake ‘fake cupcake’). In this paper, we combine an extensive corpus study of eight Dutch “fake” morphemes with statistical methods in distributional semantics and collexeme analysis in order to compare their semantic and morphological properties and to find out which factors are the driving forces behind their exceptional “extravagant” morphological behavior. Our analyses show that debonding and adjectival reanalysis are triggered by an interplay of two factors, i.e., type frequency and semantic coherence, which allow us to range the eight morphemes on a cline from more schematic to more substantive “fake” constructions. ; Belgian National Research Fund (F.R.S.-FNRS) ; Peer Reviewed