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The Swedish suffix -is and its place within evaluative morphology
Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of language studies.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1050-0709
2024 (English)In: Diminutives across languages, theoretical frameworks and linguistic domains / [ed] Stela Manova; Laura Grestenberger; Katharina Korecky-Kröll, Berlin; Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2024, p. 153-178Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

In colloquial Swedish, -is suffixation is a productive derivational process. The suffix -is has many diminutive-like properties (e.g., -is combines with truncated bases or bases of different lexical classes). As its main use is not to convey smallness but rather a subjective, qualitative evaluation, the present study addresses -is suffixation within evaluative morphology theory. Based on corpus-data from social media texts, +500 -is words (types) are analyzed for formation pattern, lexical class, and gender. The majority of -is words are uter gender nouns, mostly referring to animate referents, a few have neuter gender, mostly referring to inanimates, and some are adjectives, adverbs, or interjections. Semantically, some -is words are homonymous or polysemous. The study holds that there are different, more or less regular subpatterns of -is suffixation. It also suggests that -is suffixation might be on its way to becoming regularized towards forming nouns with uter gender and animate referents. However, as new and old words on -is exist side by side in contemporary language, -is words lie on a continuum, with regular morphological subpatterns at one end and irregular formations at the other.

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Berlin; Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2024. p. 153-178
Series
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM], ISSN 1861-4302 ; 380
Keywords [en]
Derivational morphology, Lexeme-based approach, Diminutive suffixes, Productivity, Animacy and gender
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General Language Studies and Linguistics
Research subject
Linguistics; language studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-217585DOI: 10.1515/9783110792874-007Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85181988325ISBN: 978-3-11-079283-6 (print)ISBN: 978-3-11-079287-4 (electronic)ISBN: 978-3-11-079294-2 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-217585DiVA, id: diva2:1818792
Available from: 2023-12-12 Created: 2023-12-12 Last updated: 2024-07-02Bibliographically approved

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