Neologicity and Productivity in the Formation of Eventive Nouns with -azo

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https://doi.org/10.4151/S0718-09342024011601223

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formal neology, affix polysemy, eventive suffix ‘-azo’, transgression to nominal derivation patterns, varieties of Spanish

Abstract

‘Neologicity’ is the property of a lexical item of being new. It is considered non-discrete and adjustable according to different parameters: temporality, speaker perception, frequency of use and type of neological resource. This work aims to contribute to the study of this last parameter by analyzing the productivity of the eventive suffix ‘-azo’ in a corpus of neologisms from different varieties of Spanish, extracted from the NOW corpus and the BOBNEO neological database. There is a total of 149 neologisms, including ‘alimentazo’, ‘corbatazo’, ‘ivazo’, ‘jujeñazo’, ‘pingüinazo’, which were analyzed in their sentence contexts. Then a highly fragmented description of the behavior of the suffix was proposed: 32 formation patterns were postulated according to the categorical and semantic restrictions of the bases and the results. A different degree of impact on the neological nature of the neological derivatives was observed among them, as well as different types of transgressions operated on some of the patterns. Finally, a pattern productivity scale model is offered -according to the extent of availability and current profitability- that allows the weighing of the impact of each one on the neologicity of the lexical item, and an initial underspecified semantic representation of the affix to capture its ductility is proposed.

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2024-12-09

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Adelstein, A. (2024). Neologicity and Productivity in the Formation of Eventive Nouns with -azo. Revista Signos. Estudios De Lingüística, 57(116), 838–870. https://doi.org/10.4151/S0718-09342024011601223

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Vol. 57 No. 116 (2024): December

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Thematic section articles

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