Implicit multiple exponence in Modern Greek verbs

Multiple exponence in morphology has recently attracted a good deal of attention (see, among others, Harris 2017; Caballero & Inkelas 2018). In this paper, I examine Modern Greek verbs which take an extra verbalizer (implicit multiple exponence). The simple base (bare form) and the base with the...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nikos Koutsoukos
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main 2019-07-01
Series:Zeitschrift für Wortbildung
Subjects:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1849691655921205248
author Nikos Koutsoukos
author_facet Nikos Koutsoukos
author_sort Nikos Koutsoukos
collection DOAJ
description Multiple exponence in morphology has recently attracted a good deal of attention (see, among others, Harris 2017; Caballero & Inkelas 2018). In this paper, I examine Modern Greek verbs which take an extra verbalizer (implicit multiple exponence). The simple base (bare form) and the base with the verbalizer co-exist in the lexicon without any semantic or aspectual opposition and can be used in the same syntactic context. Thus, they raise important questions for morphological theory. I argue that the explanation of this pleonastic addition may be hidden in the relation between inflection and derivation and the polyfunctional character of verbalizers in synthetic languages. Since the two forms co-exist and one member of each pair features an idiomatic association of meaning and complex form, morphological theory is challenged. I argue that these formations find a natural account within the framework of Construction Morphology (Booij 2010; Jackendoff & Audring 2019). Dieser Beitrag ist ursprünglich im Peter-Lang-Verlag erschienen (https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/plg/jwf/2019/00000003/00000002/art00001)
format Article
id doaj-art-0a8a8085b26d4f10a429eafeb3398c8b
institution DOAJ
issn 2367-3877
language deu
publishDate 2019-07-01
publisher Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
record_format Article
series Zeitschrift für Wortbildung
spelling doaj-art-0a8a8085b26d4f10a429eafeb3398c8b2025-08-20T03:20:58ZdeuUniversitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am MainZeitschrift für Wortbildung2367-38772019-07-0132633https://doi.org/10.3726/zwjw.2019.02.01Implicit multiple exponence in Modern Greek verbsNikos Koutsoukos0Katholische Universität Löwen (UCL)Multiple exponence in morphology has recently attracted a good deal of attention (see, among others, Harris 2017; Caballero & Inkelas 2018). In this paper, I examine Modern Greek verbs which take an extra verbalizer (implicit multiple exponence). The simple base (bare form) and the base with the verbalizer co-exist in the lexicon without any semantic or aspectual opposition and can be used in the same syntactic context. Thus, they raise important questions for morphological theory. I argue that the explanation of this pleonastic addition may be hidden in the relation between inflection and derivation and the polyfunctional character of verbalizers in synthetic languages. Since the two forms co-exist and one member of each pair features an idiomatic association of meaning and complex form, morphological theory is challenged. I argue that these formations find a natural account within the framework of Construction Morphology (Booij 2010; Jackendoff & Audring 2019). Dieser Beitrag ist ursprünglich im Peter-Lang-Verlag erschienen (https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/plg/jwf/2019/00000003/00000002/art00001)implicit multiple exponenceconstruction morphologyderivationinflectionmodern greekverb
spellingShingle Nikos Koutsoukos
Implicit multiple exponence in Modern Greek verbs
Zeitschrift für Wortbildung
implicit multiple exponence
construction morphology
derivation
inflection
modern greek
verb
title Implicit multiple exponence in Modern Greek verbs
title_full Implicit multiple exponence in Modern Greek verbs
title_fullStr Implicit multiple exponence in Modern Greek verbs
title_full_unstemmed Implicit multiple exponence in Modern Greek verbs
title_short Implicit multiple exponence in Modern Greek verbs
title_sort implicit multiple exponence in modern greek verbs
topic implicit multiple exponence
construction morphology
derivation
inflection
modern greek
verb
work_keys_str_mv AT nikoskoutsoukos implicitmultipleexponenceinmoderngreekverbs