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The article presents a morphemic account of transcategoriality, with detailed illustrations (e.g. English and , French , , meme, Latin to French morpheme //) of the approach. After making explicit the paradigmatic differences between exoskeletal and endoskeletal approaches, and showing that ultimately it can be summarized in terms of existence or not of grammar-free morphemes becoming lexemes through grammatical and contextual insertion, it turns to the issue of knowing what an exoskeletal non-categorial meaning can be. It introduces at this stage the notion of fractality, before making explicit and detailing the method which allows isolation of a morpheme’s indicational semantics. The whole approach is finally illustrated with the study of the whole distribution of French //, first semantically in synchrony before extending the tests to Latin data, showing that polysemy, transcategoriality and plurisemy are various forms of the same issue.

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Accounting for transcategorial morphemes
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Keyword(s): endoskeletal lexemes; exoskeletal morphemes; fractality; plurisemy; transcategoriality

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