TY  - JOUR
AU  - Nikos Koutsoukos
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
JF  - Zeitschrift für Wortbildung / Journal of Word Formation
IS  - 2
VL  - 3
SN  - 2367-3877
TI  - Implicit multiple exponence in Modern Greek verbs
DO  - 10.3726/zwjw.2019.02.01
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1157193
N2  - Multiple exponence in morphology has recently attracted a good deal of attention (see, among others, Harris 2017; Caballero & Inkelas 2018). In this paper, I examine Modern Greek verbs which take an extra verbalizer (implicit multiple exponence). The simple base (bare form) and the base with the verbalizer co-exist in the lexicon without any semantic or aspectual opposition and can be used in the same syntactic context. Thus, they raise important questions for morphological theory. I argue that the explanation of this pleonastic addition may be hidden in the relation between inflection and derivation and the polyfunctional character of verbalizers in synthetic languages. Since the two forms co-exist and one member of each pair features an idiomatic association of meaning and complex form, morphological theory is challenged. I argue that these formations find a natural account within the framework of Construction Morphology (Booij 2010; Jackendoff & Audring 2019).
KW  - implicit multiple exponence, construction morphology, derivation, inflection, Modern Greek, verb
ER  -