Publication details
Algunos aspectos problemáticos de la clasificación y el inventario de los prefijos apreciativos cultos en espańol
| Title in English | Problematic aspects of classification and inventory of the appreciative Greco-Latin prefixes in Spanish |
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| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Studia Romanistica |
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| Web | http://www.osu.cz/index.php?kategorie=34514 |
| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | Spanish; Word Formation; Greco-Latin Prefixes; Appreciative Prefixation |
| Description | This paper deals with the following problems related to the classification and the inventory of appreciative Greco-Latin prefixes in modern Spanish: the difficult distinction between Greco-Latin prefixes and prefixoids; the infrequent use of the concept of appreciative prefixation as superordinate category to the concept fields used habitually in semantic classification of prefixes; the open inventory of numerical prefixes; the incomplete information about semantic values of some prefixes; the omission of the element mega- in various studies on Spanish word formation. |