RT Journal Article
SR Electronic(1)
A1 Németh, Boglárka
A1 Sőrés, Anna
YR 2018
T1 Evaluative morphology in the verbal domain: Complex verbs suffixed with -kVdik in Hungarian
JF Studies in Language. International Journal sponsored by the Foundation “Foundations of Language”
VO 42
IS 1
SP 202
OP 225
DO https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.00008.nem
PB John Benjamins
SN 0378-4177,
AB So far, evaluative morphology has received less attention in the verbal domain than in the nominal and adjectival ones. This paper shows that – besides frequentative morphemes like -gAt and preverbs like tele- ‘full’, le- ‘down’, fel ‘up’, etc. – in Hungarian events can be evaluated by means of the verbalizer suffix -kVdik. This formation is unusual in evaluative morphology since it is a category-changing operation. The suffix -kVdik can be attached to adjectives and to nouns expressing a profession or an occupation. Depending on the speaker’s intention, the morphologically complex verb suffixed with -kVdik can attribute to the activity an evaluative, mostly pejorative meaning. The paper suggests that this phenomenon goes beyond evaluative morphology and can be better analyzed in terms of morphopragmatics.,
UL https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/sl.00008.nem