Konsequenzen der los-Suffigierung im Deutschen: Korpushäufigkeit, emotional-affektive Effekte und konstruktionsgrammatische Perspektiven
- Based on the privative derivational suffix -los, we test statements found in the literature on word formation using a – at least in this field – novel empirical basis: a list of affective-emotional ratings of base nouns and associated -los derivations. In addition to a frequency analysis based on the German Reference Corpus, we show that, in general, emotional polarity (so-called valence, positive vs. negative emotions) is reversed by suffixation with -los. This change is stronger for more polarized base nouns. The perceived intensity of emotion (so-called arousal) is generally lower for -los derivations than for base nouns. Finally, to capture the results theoretically, we propose a prototypical -los construction in the framework of Construction Morphology.
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| Author: | Sascha WolferORCiDGND, Katrin HeinGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-112566 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3726/zwjw.2022.02.03 |
| ISSN: | 2367-3877 |
| Parent Title (Multiple languages): | Zeitschrift für Wortbildung / Journal of Word Formation |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | German |
| Year of first Publication: | 2022 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2022/10/06 |
| Publishing Institution: | Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) |
| Publicationstate: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
| Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
| Tag: | arousal; construction morphology; corpus; derivation; emotional valence; privatives; suffix |
| GND Keyword: | Ableitung <Linguistik>; Deutsch; Konstruktionsgrammatik; Korpus <Linguistik>; Morphologie <Linguistik>; Suffix; Suffixbildung; Wortbildung |
| Volume: | 6 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| First Page: | 71 |
| Last Page: | 99 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 430 Deutsch |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Korpuslinguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Lexikologie / Etymologie |
| Program areas: | L2: Lexikalische Syntagmatik |
| Program areas: | L3: Lexik empirisch und digital |
| Licence (English): |  Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International |