LINGUIST List 18.659
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Diss: Morphology: Tremblay: 'Spanish -dor Derivations'
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Spanish -dor Derivations
Message 1: Spanish -dor Derivations
Date: 26-Feb-2007
From: Antoine Tremblay <antoinetualberta.ca>
Subject: Spanish -dor Derivations
Institution: Laval University
Program: Department of Languages, Linguistics, and Translation
Dissertation Status: Completed
Degree Date: 2006
Author: Antoine Tremblay
Dissertation Title: Spanish -dor Derivations
Dissertation URL: http://www.ualberta.ca/~antoinet/ma_dissertation.pdf
Linguistic Field(s):
Morphology
Subject Language(s): Spanish (spa)
Dissertation Director:
Manuel Espanol-Echevarria
Dissertation Abstract:
This work attempts to bridge the gap between descriptive and theoreticallyinclined accounts by focussing on four issues concerning Spanish -dorderivation, namely restrictions on the base, noun-based -dor derivations,the nature of the -dor, -tor, -sor, -or, and -dora forms, and thegrammatical category of -dor derivations. It is shown that the Spanish -dorsuffix associates with verbs having an external argument (i.e. withtransitive and unergative verbs) and that the derivation refers to the baseverb's external argument. In addition, it is argued that noun-based -dorderivations are based on the event's complement noun. Moreover, it isargued that there is only one nomina agentis forming morpheme having theform -dor, and that some verbs have both a patrimonial and an eruditeallomorph. Finally, -dor derivations are found to be basically adjectival,the nominal variant resulting from the addition of post-derivationalidiosyncratic pieces of lexical information.
Cette étude tente de lier les approches descriptives et théoriques serapportant aux dérivés espagnols en -dor. On y traite quatre pointsproblématiques, notamment : les restrictions sur la base du dérivé; lesdérivés basés sur des substantifs; la nature des formes -dor, -tor, -sor,-or, et -dora; et la catégorie grammaticale des dérivés en -dor. On yétablit que ce suffixe s'associe aux verbes ayant un argument externe. Deplus, on y conclut que les dérivés en -dor basés sur des substantifs sontengendrés à partir du complément direct apparaissant dans la StructureLexico-Conceptuelle d'un verbe. D'autre part, on y démontre qu'il n'y a enréalité qu'un seul morphème de forme -dor, et que certains verbes espagnolsont un allomorphe patrimonial et un autre érudit. Finalement, on y affirmeque les dérivés en -dor sont fondamentalement adjectivaux, et que lavariante substantive est obtenue par addition d'information sémantiqueidiosyncrasique.
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