
Greek derivational affixes roots or categorizers?
Author(s) -
Αρτεμισ Αλεξιαδου
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
linguística/linguística
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2182-9713
pISSN - 1646-6195
DOI - 10.21747/16466195/lingespa7
Subject(s) - linguistics , affix , stress (linguistics) , computer science , mathematics , philosophy
In this paper, I am concerned with the status of derivational affixes in Distributed Morphology: are these roots or categorizers? I will compare Greek to English and Dutch, as some derivational affixes in these two languages have been claimed to be roots. I will show that Greek derivational affixes are categorizers, and I will offer an explanation that capitalizes on the stress properties of Greek derivational affixes.