Morphological formal means (I): asymmetries between prefixes and suffixes

• Autores: Antonio Fábregas Alfaro
• Localización: The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Morphology / coord. por Antonio Fábregas Alfaro, Víctor Acedo Matellán, Grant Amstrong, María Cristina Cuervo, Isabel Pujol Payet, 2021, ISBN 978-0-429-31819-1, págs. 15-28
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This chapter describes the properties of prefixes, as opposed to suffixes, in Spanish. The core grammatical distinction between prefixes and suffixes is that only suffixes can change the grammatical category of their base. In morphology, as in syntax, the head of the structure is the constituent that imposes its grammatical and semantic properties to the whole. It has also been noted since R. Jakobson that, cross-linguistically, prefixes can remain less phonologically integrated with their bases than suffixes. Moreover, some of the properties need to be nuanced due to affix rivalry or the restrictions imposed by the meaning of individual prefixes or prefix classes. The chapter examines cases where prefixes relate to category change, cannot be recursive and display category restrictions. A. M. DiSciullo influentially proposed that affixes defined as prefixes are introduced at different positions but always being adjuncts that do not change the grammatical category of their bases.