Adjectival Suffixation in French

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10.2991/assehr.k.211119.098How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Adjective formation; French language; suffixes

Abstract

Suffixation covers various processes of word formation and commonly changes the word-class of the base lexeme. It also covers the formation of adjectives. This study attempts to investigate the formation of adjectives using derivational suffixes in French and describes the meaning of the semantic function of the suffixes used. The study was conducted by using the qualitative method with corpus-based analysis as a research design. The data were collected by purposive sampling technique from MorphoLex-FR, a derivational morphological database for 38,840 French words. In addition, French sentences containing adjectives on Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales (CNRTL) website were used to analyze semantic functions of the suffixes used by morphology and semantic theoretical framework. The findings show that Adjectives can be formed from different word classes, from verbs (using suffixes: -able, -eur, -ant, -if/-ive) and nouns (using suffixes: -aire, -al, -el, -ique). Most adjectives formed from verbs show a sense of liable to do the action signified by the verbal root as or has a passive interpretation which explains the nature of the noun by giving the passive meaning of an intransitive verb. While adjectives formed from nouns mostly show a sense relating closely to the thing named by the root. This study should contribute to increasing the entry of French speakers (native or non-native) and to provide useful references for similar research.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Sofyani Nur Azizah
AU  - Yuliarti Mutiarsih
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/11/21
TI  - Adjectival Suffixation in French
BT  - Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 632
EP  - 636
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211119.098
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211119.098
ID  - Azizah2021
ER  -