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Discrepancy between form and meaning in Word Formation: the case of over- and under-marking in French

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Most word formation (WF) theories assume that derivatives tend in general towards canonicity, that is one-to-one correspondence between form and meaning and thus full morpho-semantic transparency. However, form-meaning mismatches actually have a widespread coverage, both in terms of languages and WF rules. These mainly fall into two types of discrepancy: over-marking and under-marking. In this paper we propose a classification of these deviations with a distinction between a derivational level and a lexical one. We illustrate this classification with examples from French and other languages: English, Italian and Dutch. Then, we sketch a unified analysis of these deviations, within a word-based framework. We propose to analyse the relative importance of canonicity and discrepancies in WF from the perspective of the interaction between the speaker and the hearer.

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Nabil Hathout, Fiammetta Namer. Discrepancy between form and meaning in Word Formation: the case of over- and under-marking in French. Franz Rainer; Francesco Gardani; Hans Christian Luschützky; Wolfgang U. Dressler. Morphology and Meaning. Selected papers from the 15th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, February 2012, 327, John Benjamins, pp.177-190, 2014, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 9789027248466. ⟨10.1075/cilt.327.12hat⟩. ⟨hal-00989259⟩
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