The Fine-grained Structure of the Lexical Area
(Gender, appreciatives and nominal suffixes in Spanish)
Antonio Fábregas
John Benjamins Publishing, 2024
INFO: https://benjamins.com/catalog/ihll.39
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1. Introduction: Derivational suffixes without category change | pp. 1–43
Chapter 2. Gender in nouns | pp. 44–84
Chapter 3. Extending gender analysis: Inclusive gender, pronouns and ellipsis | pp. 85–113
Chapter 4. Appreciative morphology in nouns (I): Default diminutives | pp. 114–152
Chapter 5. Appreciative morphology in nouns (II): Other classes of appreciatives | pp. 153–181
Chapter 6. Appreciatives in verbs: Verbal interfixation | pp. 182–227
Chapter 7. Denominal event and state nouns | pp. 228–257
Chapter 8. Inflectional number | pp. 258–283
Chapter 9. Collectives, measurers and kinds | pp. 284–316
Chapter 10. Jobs and locations, parents and siblings | pp. 317–350
Chapter 11. Deadjectival adjectives: Scale suffixes | pp. 351–372
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