On the Analogical Suffixation of Paired Antonyms

The Case of English innie and outie

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20451997
AutoresJosé Antonio Sánchez Fajardo (0000-0002-6136-0582, University of Alicante, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen42
Número1
Páginas189-211
Fecha de publicación2020-06-28
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAtlantis Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0210-6124 • E-ISSN: 1989-6840
EditorialAEDEAN (Asociacion Espanola de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.28914/atlantis-2020-42.1.10
OpenAlexW3038684373
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas11

In English, there are a series of paired antonyms ending with the same suffix, particularly in slang or colloquial speech—stardom, regulardom/unknowndom; friendship, enemyship; singlehood, marriedhood, etc. This article looks into the tenets of the analogical suffixation of paired antonyms (ASPA), which is the process that is thought to underlie the mechanisms of morphological analogy and semantic complementation in the structuring of same-suffixed antonymic pairs (APs). In the study of ASPA, the AP innie/outie is used to explore the interconnection of antonymy, suffixation and analogy in the twenty-nine senses identified in the corpora (News on the Web Corpus and Lexis Nexis Academic). This case study shows that the semantic composition of the AP is the result of overlapping categories that involve the bases (in-, out-), the attached suffix (-ie/y), the complementary and coalescent nature of the pairs and the morphological adaptation undergone by the etymons to fit into the pairing markedness. The process of ASPA is a universal and scalar property that depends on the semantic opacity of bases, the sociolinguistic value of the word stock and the concept of lexical creativity. The examination of the morphological analogy of paired antonyms can shed more light on the predictability and performance (profitability) of word-formation mechanisms in both mainstream and peripheral lexis

Analogy · Grammaticalization · Lexis · Linguistics · Suffix · Computer Science · Lexicography and Language Studies · linguistics and terminology studies · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Psychology