<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'ＭＳ Ｐゴシック', 'MS PGothic', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; ">Dear Francesco,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'ＭＳ Ｐゴシック', 'MS PGothic', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'ＭＳ Ｐゴシック', 'MS PGothic', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; "> A few examples from Japanese have come to my mind.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'ＭＳ Ｐゴシック', 'MS PGothic', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; "> The forms marked with * are not used in Modern Japanese. (At least, they are not used in my idiolect.)</div><div><font face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック,MS PGothic,sans-serif"> Please note also that nouns in Japanese generally do not have a number distinction. For example, <i>inu </i>can mean 'a dog' or 'dogs'.</font></div><div><font face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック,MS PGothic,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック,MS PGothic,sans-serif">(1) Plural suffixes: -domo, -tati</font></div><div><br></div><div><font face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック,MS PGothic,sans-serif">K</font><font face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック,MS PGothic,sans-serif">o 'a child, children'</font></div><div><font face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック,MS PGothic,sans-serif">Ko-domo 'a child, children'</font></div><div><font face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック,MS PGothic,sans-serif">Ko-domo-tati 'children' (NOT 'a child')</font></div><div><font face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック,MS PGothic,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック,MS PGothic,sans-serif">The suffix –domo generally indicates plurality. However, in the word ko-domo, it no longer indicates plurality. To indicate plurality, another plural suffix –tati is added.</font></div><div><font face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック,MS PGothic,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック,MS PGothic,sans-serif">(2) Polite prefixes: o-, mi-</font></div><div><br></div><div>(2-1)</div><div>*Tuke </div><div>O-tuke 'soy bean paste soup'</div><div> (I do not use this form. But I think I have heard it.)</div><div>*Mi-o-tuke</div><div>O-mi-o-tuke 'soy bean paste soup'</div><div><br></div><div>(2-2)</div><div>Asi 'foot, feet'</div><div>*mi-asi</div><div>O-mi-asi 'foot, feet'</div><div><br></div><div> Are these examples relevant to your search?</div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'ＭＳ Ｐゴシック', 'MS PGothic', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; "><div>-- </div><div>Tasaku Tsunoda</div><div><br></div><div>E-mail adresses</div><div>(1) tsunoda@ninjal.ac.jp</div><div> Probably until the 30th September 2013</div><div>(2) tasakutsunoda@nifty.com</div><div> From the 27th April 2013 '</div></div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'ＭＳ Ｐゴシック', 'MS PGothic', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; "><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'ＭＳ Ｐゴシック', 'MS PGothic', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; "><div style="font-family:ÇlÇr ÇoÉSÉVÉbÉN; font-size:10pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> "Gardani, Francesco" <<a href="mailto:Francesco.Gardani@WU.AC.AT">Francesco.Gardani@WU.AC.AT</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span> "Gardani, Francesco" <<a href="mailto:Francesco.Gardani@WU.AC.AT">Francesco.Gardani@WU.AC.AT</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> 2014年3月25日火曜日 19:37<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> <<a href="mailto:LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG">LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> affix pleonasm crosslinguistically<br></div><div><br></div><div xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Gentium Plus'; ">Dear colleagues, <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Gentium Plus'; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><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><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size: 6pt; font-family: 'Gentium Plus'; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><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><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size: 6pt; font-family: 'Gentium Plus'; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><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><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Gentium Plus'; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><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></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Gentium Plus'; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Gentium Plus'; ">Thank you in advance for your help and best regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Gentium Plus'; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Gentium Plus'; ">Francesco Gardani<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></span></body></html>