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6 - Expressivity in Modern Greek: Some morphological mechanisms for the expression of negative emotions

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2023

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Haritini Kallergi ,
Georgia Katsouda ,
Magdalene Konstantinidou  and
Anastasios Tsangalidis
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Jeffrey P. Williams
Jeffrey P. Williams
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Texas Tech University
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The aim of this study is to investigate aspects of expressivity in Standard Modern Greek (hereafter SMG), specifically cases in which expressivity shares the characteristic [+negative] or pejorative, in the more technical sense adopted here. Our research is focused on the level of morphology, particularly on productive word formation, both through compounding (first compound constituents with pejorative meaning, as in vromokánalo ‘filthy TV channel’ and paʎoiós ‘old/damn virus’, among others) and derivation (derivational suffixes with pejorative functions, such as ipurʝéi ‘bad ministers’, ipalilákos ‘insignificant clerk’ and fititarjó ‘a student lot’, among others). It should be noted that although the particular SMG morphological phenomena/devices have been scatteringly studied in earlier Greek literature, negative expressive meaning, that is, pejoration, has not been systematically dealt with so far.

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Expressivity in European Languages , pp. 123 - 228
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