LE PRÉFIXOÏDE – UN OUTIL DE DESCRIPTION MORPHOLOGIQUE ET ÉLÉMENT DU SYSTÈME DE LA LANGUE FRANÇAISE ET POLONAISE
Prefixoid – a descriptive tool in morphology, and an element of the systems of French and Polish

Summary/Abstract: Based on Polish and French vocabulary, this paper proposes criteria which shall make it possible to differentiate between prefixoids and prefixes. There are three such criteria: 1. prefixoids have the capacity to become autonomous (and even to become bases in word formation), and are impossible to substitute in their semantic representation by native prefixes, or to be expanded into full exemes; 2. lexemes are created together with suffixoids, showing that neither of them are just affixes; 3. in some cases, the position of suffixoids can vary with regard to the lexical element which co-forms the compound lexeme. It is for these reasons that these elements deserve their own place in the morphological description of, at least, Polish and French.

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