Q: `workaholic'
Guido Mensching
mensch at spinfo.uni-koeln.de
Thu Jul 23 10:06:52 UTC 1998
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A German term for this phenomenon is "Kontaminativkompositum". This term
is used by Seewald (1994:84-87) in order to describe French words like
bureautique < bureau + informatique
didacticiel < didactique + logiciel
bandothe'que < bande + bibliote'hque
(cf. also e'ducatique, graphiciel, iconothe'que). According to Seewald
this phenomenon is a kind of mixture of composition and suffixation, and
she considers elements like "-theque" and "-iel" as suffixes, though
the derivational base may be mutilated like in "linguiciel" (linguistique
+ logiciel).
In Zwanenburg (1990:75) the same phenomenon is called "telescopage".
Bibliography:
Seewald, Uta (1994) Maschinelle morphosemantische Analyse des
Franzo"sischen "MORSE". Eine Untersuchung am Beispiel des Wortschatzes der
Datenverarbeitung. Tu"bingen (= Sprache und Information. Beitra"ge zur
philologischen und linguistischen Datenverarbeitung, Informatik und
Informationswissenschaft, Bd. 26)
Zwanenburg, Wiecher (1990): Franzo"sische Wortbildungslehre. In:
Holtus e.a. (eds.): Lexikon der Romanistischen Linguistik vol. V,1 p.
72-77
With best regards,
Guido Mensching
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