| Name |
FUL-ADJECTIVE CONSTRUCTION
|
| Semantic function of cxn |
Describes a quality or property, a person, an object or an event in terms of the ABSTRACT QUALITY expressed by the noun; having a lot of that quality. |
| Slots |
1 (base) |
2 (suffix) |
| Semantic role of slots |
ABSTRACT QUALITY |
|
| Syntactic form |
noun |
/fǝl/ |
| Example |
| Examples of bases and the corresponding suffixations: | success
use
power
care
wonder | →
← | successful
useful
beautiful
careful
wonderful | | | awe | awful | word-final <e> in base, but not in word formation | | beauty | | beautiful | <y> – <i> | | marginal cases: | | resentful
grateful | |
|
| General cxn-type |
word formation cxn: morphological
affixation: asuffixation
|
| Literature |
Schmid 2011: 177; Stein 2007: 59 |