[Lingtyp] Evaluative morphology expressing "authenticity/prototypicality"

[Cat Butz]

Hi Francesca,

Probably not exactly what you're looking for, but Dalkalaen (Oceanic, 
Vanuatu) has a pretty grammaticalized adjective "ten", which means 
"belonging to, assigned to, like that" etc.; with some nouns, it takes 
on meaning like "traditional, native", and in some cases, it means 
"real, actual", e.g.

afyalo ten
boat TEN
'canoe'

vyanten ten
person TEN
'real person (as opposed to a ghost, a demon, etc.)'

It also occurs as an adverb, in which case it means "very".

Warmest,
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Cat Butz (she)
HHU Düsseldorf
General Linguistics


Am 09/07/2024 19:08, schrieb Francesca Masini via Lingtyp:
> 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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> Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
> Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Moderne (LILEC)
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> http://www.unibo.it/docenti/francesca.masini [1]
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