TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wauquier, Marine
A1  - Hathout, Nabil
A1  - Fabre, Cécile
T1  - Semantic discrimination of technicality in French nominalizations
T2  - Zeitschrift für Wortbildung : ZWJW = Journal of word formation
N2  - French suffixations in -age, -ion and -ment are considered roughly equivalent, yet some differences have been pointed out regarding the semantics of the resulting nominalizations. In this study, we confirm the existence of a semantic distinction between them on the basis of a large scale distributional analysis. We show that the distinction is partially determined by the degree of technicality of the denoted action: -age nominals tend to be more technical than -ion ones. We examine this hypothesis through the statistical modeling of technicality. To this end, we propose a linguistic definition of technicality, which we implement using empirical, quantitative criteria estimated in corpora and lexical resources. We show to what extent the differences with respect to these criteria adequately approximate technicality. Our study indicates that this definition of technicality, while amendable, provides new perspectives for the characterization of action nouns.
KW  - Suffix
KW  - Semantik
KW  - Distribution <Linguistik>
KW  - Nomen actionis
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/70494
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-704945
SN  - 2367-3877
VL  - 4.2020
IS  - 2
SP  - 100
EP  - 119
PB  - Peter Lang
CY  - Berlin
ER  -