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DEPNER, Shelley Ching-yu. Statistical Internet Based Analysis of the Affixoid -ma in Modern Mandarin Chinese. Comp. y Sist. [online]. 2019, vol.23, n.4, pp.1533-1540.  Epub 09-Ago-2021. ISSN 2007-9737.  https://doi.org/10.13053/cys-23-4-3308.

This study examines recent morphological development -mā 'mother' in Modern Mandarin Chinese, such as that in dānqīn mā 單親媽 'single mother'. Our data are taken from the Taiwan News Smart Web (2019). Collocation [13,7] and Semantic prosody [25,26] is the research framework of this study. Then the criteria for identifying affixoids [29,8] will be taken for further examining the data. The goal of the study is to investigate the morphological and semantic attributes of [X-ma] nominals and to find out why the affixoids are productive. The research goals are: (1) to reveal the semantic prosody of [X-ma] nowadays; (2) to show whether the [X-ma] structures are compounding or affixation. The findings indicate that [X-ma] expresses more positivity than negativity. The -ma in Modern Mandarin is developing toward an affix, now an affixoid.

Palavras-chave : [X-ma] construction; collocation; semantic prosody; affixoid; quasi-suffix.

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