A functional study of derivational suffixes indicating parts of speech

Abstract

One of the aims of this paper is to classify the terms occurring in the linguistic literature as synonyms for 'derivational suffixes indicating parts of speech' (suffix of integration, verbalizing suffix, nativizing suffix, adaptational suffix) in order to highlight the functional differences across the various suffixes indicating parts of speech. In classifying suffixes of diverse functions, the author takes stem types into consideration (whether the suffixes concerned are attached to free or to bound stems) on the one hand, and the origin of the stems (whether they are native or borrowed) on the other. another aim of the paper is to study the integration of borrowed verbs into the grammatical (phonological, morphological, and syntactic) system of Hungarian. Pre-conquest and post-conquest verbal borrowings are strikingly different in whether they involve a derivational suffix of nativization or not, and also in the types of derivational suffixes indicating verbality that participate in the obligatory derivational integration of borrowed verbs.