Abstract
The aim of this paper is to explore how (non-)compositional meaning is assigned in the domain of word formation, focusing on the presence vs. absence of idiomatic meanings associated with derivational morphology. Idiomaticity is investigated in the empirical domain of Greek – tos and – menos adjectival participles. It is argued that the Marantz’s (2001) and Arad’s (2003) hypothesis that idiosyncratic meaning is delimited at the level of the first category assigning head due to locality conditions on the interpretation of roots is not supported by the Greek data. It is furthermore proposed that in Greek participles the presence of Voice (carrying agentivity features) delimits the domain for non-compositional meaning assignment.
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