Nom propre et dérivation

Abstract

Mainstream thinking holds that the morphological productivity of proper names is low. The derivation of Npr is certainly not homogeneous but we think that there is a real derivation of Npr in the discursive genre we are studying, the media discourse of political information (considered as a discursive genre in the tradition of the French School of Discourse Analysis). In a first step, our purpose is descriptive and highlights the existence of a derivation by suffixation of Npr of contemporary French politicians. In a second step, the context of the lexematic morphology, we propose to see how these Npr considered as bases lexemes behave when they are subject to the Lexemes Construction Rules (RCL) and how it is necessary to take into account the specific semantic functioning of Npr in the calculation of the constructed sense of constructed lexemes obtained.