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Introduction published In: Morphology and emotions across the world's languages
Edited by Maïa Ponsonnet and Marine Vuillermet
[Studies in Language 42:1] 2018
► pp. 1–16

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Introduction

Morphology and emotions: A preliminary typology

 | The University of Western Australia | ARC Centre for the Dynamics of Language | Australian National University | The University of Sydney
 | Laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage (CNRS & Université de Lyon)
Published online: 19 April 2018
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Abstract
This volume presents nine chapters dealing with emotionally loaded morphology over four continents. The collection is the result of a workshop on “morphology and emotions” (MorphÉm) held by the first author at Dynamique du Langage (CNRS) in Lyon on 29–30 April 2015. In this introduction, we first discuss our definitions of the terms “emotions”, “morphology”, and the intersection between the two (Section 1). In Section 2, we contextualize the study of the morphological encoding of emotions within semantic typology and semantic ecology, and spell out some of the cross-linguistic generalizations that can be made about the morphological encoding of emotions on the basis of the contributions in this volume. In Section 3, we summarize the findings of the volume on the more specific topic of evaluative morphology, the most widespread type of emotionally loaded morphology. Finally, Section 4 offers a chapter-by-chapter outline of the volume.
Article outline
  • 1.Definitions
  • 2.Semantic typology
    • 2.1What emotions can be morphologically encoded?
    • 2.2Four profiles of emotionally loaded morphological devices
  • 3.Evaluative morphology
    • 3.1What we already knew
    • 3.2New insights into the emotional values of evaluative morphology
  • 4.Individual chapters
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
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