De la localisation à l’évaluation : des verbes préfixés évaluatifs au sens bien particulier

Abstract

In French, evaluative morphology can result from two different derivational processes, prefixation and suffixation; prefixes such as suffixes forming important paradigms. This paper aims to show that the evaluation built up by prefixation is fundamentally different from evaluation built up by suffixation. The specificity of the prefixal evaluation (quantitative meaning: excess vs insufficiency) is due to the fact that evaluative prefixes originate into spatial prepositions whose at least one meaning express superiority / inferiority.

Keywords

• evaluative morphology
• prefix
• suffix
• quantitative evaluation
• French