TY  - JOUR
A1  - Tribout, Delphine
T1  - Nominalization, verbalization or both? Insights from the directionality of noun-verb conversion in French
T2  - Zeitschrift für Wortbildung : ZWJW = Journal of word formation
N2  - Nominalization in French can be done by means of conversion, which is characterized by the identity between the base and the derived lexeme. Since both noun→verb and verb→noun conversions exist, this property raises directionality issues, and sometimes leads to contradictory analyses of the same examples. The paper presents two approaches of conversion: derivational and non-derivational ones. Then it discusses various criteria used in derivational approaches to determine the direction of conversion: diachronic ones, such as dates of first attestation or etymology; and synchronic ones, such as semantic relations, noun gender or verb inflection. All criteria are evaluated on a corpus of 3,241 French noun~verb pairs. It is shown that none of them enables to identify the direction of conversion in French. Finally, the consequences for the theory of morphology are discussed.
KW  - Nominalisierung
KW  - Verbalisierung
KW  - Konversion <Linguistik>
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/70502
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-705025
SN  - 2367-3877
VL  - 4.2020
IS  - 2
SP  - 187
EP  - 207
PB  - Peter Lang
CY  - Berlin
ER  -