イシダ　タカシ   ISHIDA Takashi   石田　崇    所属   広島修道大学  人文学部    職種   准教授
発表年月日	2026/06
発表テーマ	"A Lexicalist Approach to the Restricted Productivity of the English Prefix be-"
会議名	22nd International Morphology Meeting (IMM22)
主催者	ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics
学会区分	国際学会
発表形式	口頭（一般）
単独共同区分	共同
開催地名	Budapest, Hungary
発表者・共同発表者	Takashi Ishida; Ryohei Naya
概要	Atypicality in derivational morphology is exemplified by unprofitable but still available affixes like the English prefix be-. Historically, be- is known for deriving transitive verbs from various base categories (Bauer et al. 2013). However, in Present-day English, be- occurs chiefly on adjectival passives, as in [be-X-ed], and it is productive only when it introduces an intensive (e.g., ‘excess’) meaning to its bases (cf. OED; Marchand 1969) (e.g., bepilgrimed ‘overrun with pilgrims’). In this study, we explore the actual status of be- by investigating large-scale corpora data and offer a lexicalist analysis of its behaviour.