Resumen de Appreciative morphology
This chapter deals with appreciative morphology, which comprises a set of processes whereby the lexical base receives meanings that are connotative rather than denotative, as can be observed in the Spanish traditional values: diminutive, augmentative and pejorative. A distinctive grammatical property of appreciative morphology is that it allows for the accumulation of suffixes, as long as they have compatible meanings. In the classical terms of Roman Jakobson, one can conclude that appreciative suffixes in nouns never transmit referential meaning but emphasize other aspects of the utterance: they express a subjective evaluation of the speaker or their attitude towards the speaker. Some authors claim that appreciative morphology is also found in the verbal domain, although these cases are significantly less productive than other word classes, since generally all items are listed, often with a certain degree of lexicalization. Spanish traditional descriptions about appreciative morphology do not usually include prefixes.
