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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Gentium Plus"">Dear colleagues, <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Gentium Plus"">Some time ago I wrote a paper on affix pleonasm in the languages of Europe, covering instances such as the following ones:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Gentium Plus"">(1) dialectal English
<i>musician-er </i>for <i>musician</i>;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Gentium Plus"">(2) Latin
<i>etern-al</i>(<i>-is</i>)<i> </i>‘eternal’ instead of <i>etern</i>(<i>-us</i>) (<i>-al
</i>realizes the wordclass ‘adjective’ more explicitly);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Gentium Plus"">(3) Yucatec Maya
<i>alcanzar-t-ik </i>[achieve-TRR-INCMPL] (the transitivizing suffix -<i>t </i>applies to loanverbs that in the source language are already transitive, in our case Spanish
<i>alcanzar </i>‘to reach’).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Gentium Plus"">For more examples, please find enclosed in this email the following overview paper: Gardani, Francesco. (2015 estimated). Affix pleonasm. In Peter Müller, Ingeborg Ohnheiser, Susan Olsen & Franz
Rainer (eds), <i>Word Formation in the European languages</i>. Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science. Berlin: de Gruyter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Gentium Plus"">What I want to do now is to expand the database beyond the languages of Europe. To this end, I would kindly ask for your help. If you know of any instances of affix pleonasm (or you think they could
be such), I would appreciate it a lot if you'd share your data (possibly also the references) with me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Gentium Plus""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gentium Plus"">Thank you in advance for your help and best regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Gentium Plus"">Francesco Gardani<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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