The fine-grained structure of the lexical area : gender, appreciatives and nominal suffixes in Spanish.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fábregas, Antonio.

Series:

Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Series

Issues in hispanic and lusophone linguistics series ; vol. 39

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish language--Suffixes and prefixes.

Spanish language.

Spanish language--Morphology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (410 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, 2024.

Summary:

"This is the first book that presents a complete description and analysis of the Spanish suffixes that alter the grammatical behaviour of nouns and adjectives without changing their grammatical category, supporting a fine-grained decomposition of the syntactic area where these word classes are defined. In this monograph the reader will find a detailed empirical description of suffixes for gender, mereological properties of nouns, scalar properties of adjectives and a variety of nominal suffixes expressing actions, measures or locations, as well as an integral Neo-Constructionist analysis of the syntactic structure of the resulting formations. Framed within a Nanosyntactic-oriented framework, this book sheds light on the nature of lexical categories and the components of the low syntactic structure of nouns and adjectives. The book will be useful both to researchers in Spanish linguistics or theoretical morphology and to advanced students of Spanish interested in learning more about the expressive devices that nouns and adjectives allow"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Derivational suffixes without category change

Gender in nouns

Extending gender analysis: inclusive gender, pronouns and ellipsis

Appreciative morphology in nouns (I): default diminutives

Appreciative morphology in nouns (II): other classes of appreciatives

Appreciatives in verbs: verbal interfixation

Denominal event and state nouns

Inflectional number

Collectives, measurers and kinds

Jobs and locations, parents and siblings

Deadjectival adjectives: scale suffixes.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Fábregas, Antonio. The Fine-Grained Structure of the Lexical Area

ISBN:

9789027247209

OCLC:

1422232761