Items for "agnation"

A symbolic approach to deverbal -ee derivation

In a number of recent publications on deverbal -ee suffixation (Barker 1998; Booij and Lieber 2004; Portero Muñoz 2003) the position is defended that the extension of the system towards agentive entities (e.g., escapee, returnee, attendee) can only be explained in semantic terms, by attributing some degree of “lack of volition” (Barker 1998) or “undergoerhood” (Portero Muñoz 2003) to the profiled Agents...

Keywords: deverbal nominalization in -ee, symbolic analysis, past participle, agnation