LEXICALIZATION IN MORPHOLOGY: A CASE STUDY OF THE ANTICAUSATIVE PREFIX IN TAQBAYLIT BERBER
What makes lexicalization an intriguing topic in morphology? It is not so much the semantic mismatch between a base and its ‘derived’ form, but the question of how lexicalization is underlyingly represented. This paper explores this question with a case study of the anticausative morpheme in Taqb...
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National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest
2024-12-01
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| Series: | Studii de gramatică contrastivă |
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| Online Access: | https://studiidegramaticacontrastiva.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SGC-42-2024-53-68-Bedar.pdf1Amazigh Bedar, Aix-Marseille Univ |
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| Summary: | What makes lexicalization an intriguing topic in morphology? It is not so much the semantic
mismatch between a base and its ‘derived’ form, but the question of how lexicalization is underlyingly
represented. This paper explores this question with a case study of the anticausative morpheme in
Taqbaylit Berber. Although this prefix, namely /n-/, has the status of a derivational morpheme, it is
lexicalized in a series of verbs. A morphophonological analysis will be provided, certain points on the
argument structure of this series of verbs will be discussed, and it will be shown that this former
morpheme is no longer realized as a prefix but incorporated into the root and became the first root
consonant. Specifically, it will be argued that this prefix has lost its morphemic status and therefore is
devoid of any functional or categorial information.
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| ISSN: | 1584-143X 2344-4193 |