INVESTIGADORES
KORNFELD Laura Malena
capítulos de libros
Título:
Appreciative morphology
Autor/es:
KORNFELD, LAURA
Libro:
Handbook of Spanish Morphology
Editorial:
Routdledge
Referencias:
Lugar: Londres/Nueva York; Año: 2021; p. 269 - 284
Resumen:
Appreciative (or evaluative) morphology comprises a set of processes whereby the lexical base receives meanings that are connotative rather than denotative, as can be observed in the Spanish traditional values: diminutive (cas-ita, ?house-DIM?), augmentative (cas-ona/ cas-ota, ?house-AUG?) and pejorative (cas-ucha, ?house-PEJ?). Appreciative morphology thus distinguishes itself from (?normal?) derivation, which always impacts the denotative meaning of the base, regardless of whether there is a categorial change (e.g., contaminación ?contamination? as ?action and effect of contaminate?, humanidad ?humanity? as ?set of humans?). The predominance of connotative meanings, which involve the speaker?s subjectivity or their relationship with the listener, explains the extreme variability of appreciative morphology from a geographic, social, age and even individual perspective (cf. Pato in this volume).
