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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