A proposal for the glossing of bound formatives without committing to their nature

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Eitan Grossman, « A proposal for the glossing of bound formatives without committing to their nature », Diversity Linguistics Comment, ID : 10.58079/nste


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Martin Haspelmath (2011) has argued that the notion ‘word’ is incoherent, and therefore is not useful as a cross-linguistically valid comparative concept or as a language-internal descriptive category. As a result, in his view, the distinction between bound formatives, e.g., affixes and clitics, is untenable. For example, in Lithuanian, the bound formative -si is traditionally analyzed as a suffix when it is in one position (after the verb when the verb has no prefixes) and as a prefix when ...

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