Productivity and graduality in the layered structure of the word: opaque word-formation in old english

• Autores: Carmen Novo Urraca, Ana Elvira Ojanguren López
• Localización: Revista española de lingüística aplicada, ISSN 0213-2028, Vol. 33, no. 1, 2020, págs. 202-226
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article deals with two theoretical aspects of lexical derivation, productivity and graduality. After a discussion of transparency and opaqueness in Old English word-formation, it focuses on lexical productivity and puts forward a typology of recursive phenomena. On the basis of this typology, the morphological template of the Layered Structure of the Word is revised. The main conclusion is that a more diachronically oriented analysis is likely to opt for a decompositional template, whereas a more synchronically directed study which seeks typological validity will probably favour the template with one functional slot. If the focus is on diachronic linguistics, a template based on minimal constituent analysis can guarantee a detailed description of the derivational steps of the word, including non-affixal derivation and semantically opaque affixes.