MORFOLOGÍA DERIVATIVA Y EXPRESIÓN DE LA APROXIMACIÓN EN ESPAÑOL: EL CASO DE -OIDE

Abstract

This article has a double objective: on the one hand, to briefly present some of the derivative procedures that the morphology of Spanish has for the expression of approximation in a broad sense, including both non-prototypicity and non-authenticity or falsehood; on the other hand, analyze the specific case of suffix -oide based on data from recent neologisms in order to show how the concepts of categorization, approximation and evaluation are related in this suffix, in a similar way to what happens in the case of other suffixes of cult origin such as -áceo.