[Lingtyp] Evaluative morphology expressing "authenticity/prototypicality"

Tue Jul 9 18:17:34 UTC 2024

I guess Francesca will already know Simone Mattiola's work on reduplication - if not see the papers here:https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Simone-Mattiola
I remember a nice case many years ago in an Italian restaurant in London with an Italian colleague - the menu offered pasta con sugo di lepre 'pasta with hare sauce'. My colleague asked the waiter whether it was really 'lepre lepre' (hare hare) to which the waiter replied to be honest it's 'lepre coniglio' (hare rabbit)!
Best
Nigel

Professor Nigel Vincent, FBA MAE
Professor Emeritus of General & Romance Linguistics
The University of Manchester

Linguistics & English Language
School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
The University of Manchester

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Subject: Re: [Lingtyp] Evaluative morphology expressing "authenticity/prototypicality"

Dear Francesca,

English “contrastive reduplications” or “lexical clones” appear to be relevant too. The following examples are from Ghomeshi et al. 2004 (p.308 for example 1, p.311 (2), and p.312 (3-4), with bolding added):

(1) I’ll make the tuna salad, and you make the SALAD-salad.

(2) Look at all the yellow vans on the road. Not vans like ours [i.e.

      minivans], but VAN-vans.

(3) I had a JOB-job once. [i.e. a “real” 9-to-5 office job, as opposed to an

      academic job]

(4) A: Are you nervous?

      B: Yeah, but, you know, not NERVOUS-nervous. [i.e. not “really”

            nervous]

Best,

Chao

Ghomeshi, Jila, Ray Jackendoff, Nicole Rosen & Kevin Russell. 2004. Contrastive focus reduplication in English (the salad-salad paper). Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 22: 307-357.

On Tue, Jul 9, 2024 at 1:09 PM Francesca Masini via Lingtyp <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org<mailto:lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org>> wrote:

Dear Lingtyp community,

I’m looking for examples of evaluative word-formation processes (affixation, compounding, reduplication, etc.) conveying “authenticity/prototypicality” (Grandi & Körtvélyessy 2015: 11). Some relevant examples would be:

(1)

Kwaza (van der Voort 2015: 608)

kanwa-tete

canoe-INT

‘real canoe’

(2)

Warlpiri (Bowler 2015: 439)

warna-nyayirni

snake-AUG

‘poisonous snake’ [“[i]n central Australia, the characteristic of being poisonous or dangerous is a highly salient feature of many indigenous snakes”]

(3)

Kikuyu (Komu 2008: 50; quoted in Mattiola & Barotto 2023: 150)

irio > irioirio

‘food’ > ‘real food (not junk food)’

I would be extremely grateful for your help!

Best,

Francesca

REFERENCES

Bowler, Margit. 2015. Warlpiri. In Nicola Grandi & Livia Körtvelyessy (eds.), The Edinburgh handbook of evaluative morphology, 438–447. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Grandi, Nicola & Lívia Körtvelyessy. 2015. Introduction: Why evaluative morphology? In Nicola Grandi & Lívia Körtvelyessy (Eds.), The Edinburgh handbook of evaluative morphology, 3-20. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Komu, Mary W. 2008. An analysis of Gikuyu reduplication in the light of prosodic morphological approach. Nairobi: Kenyatta University MA thesis.

Mattiola, Simone & Alessandra Barotto. 2023. Nominal reduplication in cross-linguistic perspective. From PLURALITY to CHANGE OF REFERENTS’ SPECIFICITY. Studies in Language 47(1). 135–189.

van der Voort, Hein. 2015. Kwaza. In Nicola Grandi& Livia Körtvelyessy (eds.), The Edinburgh handbook of evaluative morphology, 606–615. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

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