L'Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria

Year 26 No. 1 (2018): Issue 1/2018
Articles

Zur Geschichte, Verbreitung und (Nicht-)Rezeption des Begriffes ‘Konfix’

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  • Bernard Haidacher

Published 04/10/2018

Keywords

  • confix(es),
  • research tradition,
  • morphology,
  • word-formation,
  • neoclassical compounding

How to Cite

Bernard Haidacher, B. H. (2018). Zur Geschichte, Verbreitung und (Nicht-)Rezeption des Begriffes ‘Konfix’ . L’Analisi Linguistica E Letteraria, 26(1), 15. Retrieved from https://www.analisilinguisticaeletteraria.eu/index.php/ojs/article/view/130
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Abstract

André Martinet (1979) is the originator of the term ‘confix’. However, in Romance linguistics the concept has not enjoyed much popularity. In French, we find a multitude of terms for these bound morphemes, which are typically integrated in the framework of composition. Nowadays, French linguists use the abstract schema of construction morphology, in which there are no specific categories. The German-speaking literature, by contrast, has paid a great deal of attention to the phenomenon.

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