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Affixation in Chinese - L'affissazione in CineseAlessandra Zappoli, 2008, undergraduate thesis
Abstract: This thesis investigates specific derivational morphological processes in word formation in Mandarin Chinese. It addresses the theoretical linguistic differences between derivation and compounding in morphology. It analyzes the morphological features of specific Mandarin Chinese morphemes and characters that show to be “borderline” cases of both morphological processes.
In particular, this works considers the theoretical position advanced by Booij (2005) based on Item and Arrangement morphology, which focuses on the difference between free and bound morphemes and seeks to overcome the sharp theoretical division between derivation and compounding, allowing for a theoretical description of affixoids.
The thesis describes the processes of lexicalization and grammaticalization through which it is possible to form new words in Indo-European languages and in Mandarin Chinese; it aims to demonstrate that Modern Mandarin Chinese forms new bisyllabic words also through affixational processes.
The data discussed in the thesis are extracted from the Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese (LCMC).
Keywords: affixation, affixoids, mandarin chinese, affissazione, affissoidi, cinese mandarino.
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