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Multiword expressions and derivation have rarely been discussed together, even though analyzing the interaction between them is of great importance for the study of each topic and, in general, for the study of the language and for Natural Lan- guage Processing. Derivation is a means of enriching the lexicon with both words and multiword expressions. Various types of derivation (suffixation, prefixation or both, as well as other derivational devices) can act upon either words or multiword expressions. The focus of our work here is the formation of multiword expressions from other multiword expressions via derivation. We analyze the morphological, syntactic and semantic aspects of this process, providing examples from Roma- nian and Bulgarian, languages, which belong to different families but have been in contact throughout their history. The study can be further extended with data from other languages. The perspective adopted here is paradigmatic, but the syntagmatic approach, which can only be mentioned as further work, will add to the quality of the analysis of facts: corpus data will contextualize the phenomena discussed here and offer quantitative information about them. |
