The French construction 'nouveau + past participle' revisited. Arguments in favour of a prefixoid analysis of nouveau
(2010) Folia Linguistica : acta societatis linguisticae Europaeae — Vol. 44, n° 1, p. 163-178 (2010)
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- The article focuses on the French construction ‘nouveau + past participle’ (e.g. nouveau-né ‘newborn baby’) in which nouveau is traditionally assigned an adverbial value. However, it will be claimed that an alternative analysis, classifying nouveau as an adjective grammaticalizing into a prefix, viz a ‘prefixoid’, provides a more accurate account of the construction. The article proposes a set of four parameters applying to the grammaticalization of French prefixoids (resemanticization, decategorialization, paradigmaticization and productivity). These parameters will be applied to the construction ‘nouveau + past participle’ and it will be shown that they conflict with the traditional adverbial analysis and plead in favour of a prefixoid analysis of nouveau.
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Van Goethem, K. (2010). The French construction ‘nouveau + past participle’ revisited. Arguments in favour of a prefixoid analysis of nouveau. Folia Linguistica : acta societatis linguisticae Europaeae, 44(1), 163-178. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/148952 (Original work published 2010)