The French construction nouveau + past participle revisited: Arguments in favour of a prefixoid analysis of nouveau
Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: The article focuses on the French construction nouveau + past participle (e.g. nouveau-né ‘newborn baby’) in which nouveau is traditionally assigned an adverbial value. However, it will be claimed that an alternative analysis, classifying nouveau as an adjective grammaticalising into a prefix – a ‘prefixoid’ – provides a more accurate account of the construction. The article proposes a set of four parameters applying to the grammaticalisation of French prefixoids (resemanticisation, decategorialisation, paradigmaticisation and productivity). These parameters will be applied to the construction nouveau + past participle and it will be shown that they conflict with the traditional adverbial analysis and plead in favour of a prefixoid analysis of nouveau .
Source: Folia Linguistica
Author: Kristel Van Goethem
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2011195751