Carmen Portero Muñoz* Bound lexical formatives: Lexicon, grammar or somewhere in between. An FDG perspective DOI 10.1515/ling-2016-0023 Abstract: This article explores the use of affix-like elements of dubious status in word formation and proposes an analysis within Functional Discourse Grammar (Hengeveld and Mackenzie 2008. Functional Discourse Grammar: A typologically- based theory of language structure. Oxford: University Press). What these ele- ments have in common is that they are all used recurrently in the formation of new words of the same type and result from general patterns used by speakers. Additionally, some of these formatives are semantically reinterpreted when embedded in morphologically complex forms. The proposal in this article is to analyze cases where meaningful bound morphemes take part as processes that take place within the lexicon by the insertion of a semantically compatible lexeme in a partially filled lexical frame. This analysis manages to distinguish cases in which a meaningful element is used as a free and a bound morpheme, since the FDG architecture dictates that free meaningful morphemes are ana- lyzed as Stems, while bound morphemes with lexical content are analyzed as Roots at the Morphosyntactic Level. The units resulting from processes where bound meaningful elements intervene are analyzed as complex words consisting of a Stem and a Root at the Morphosyntactic Level. By contrast, the formation of complex words by the concatenation of free morphemes is accounted for by invoking a process of compounding within the grammar, whereby the combina- tion of the lexemes at the Representational Level creates one complex property, which results in a complex word formed by two Stems at the Morphosyntactic Level. Keywords: semi-affixes, bound morphemes, derivation, compounding, lexical frames, Functional Discourse Grammar *Corresponding author: Carmen Portero Muñoz, Dpto. Filologías Inglesas y Alemana, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras Universidad de Córdoba, Plaza Cardenal Salazar s/n, 14071 Córdoba, Spain, E-mail: ff1pomuc@uco.es Linguistics 2016; 54(5): 1017–1053 Brought to you by | University of Colorado - Boulder Authenticated Download Date | 3/13/17 2:17 PM