TY  - JOUR
A1  - Iordăchioaia, Gianina
A1  - Schweitzer, Susanne
A1  - Svyryda, Yaryna
A1  - Buitrago Cabrera, María Camila
T1  - Deverbal zero-nominalization and verb classes: Insights from a database
T2  - Zeitschrift für Wortbildung : ZWJW = Journal of word formation
N2  - We investigate deverbal zero-derived nominals in English (e.g., to walk > a walk) from the perspective of the lexical semantics of their base verbs and the interpretations they may receive (e.g., event, result state, product, agent). By acknowledging that, in the absence of an overt affix, the meaning of zero-nominals is highly dependent on that of the base, the ultimate goal of this study is to identify possible meaning regularities that these nominals may display in relation to the different semantic verb classes. We report on a newly created database of 1,000 zero-derived nominals, which have been collected for various semantic verb classes. We test previous generalizations made in the literature in comparison with suffix-based nominals and in relation to the ontological type of the base verb. While these generalizations may intuitively hold, we find intriguing challenges that bring zero-derived nominals closer to suffix-based nominals than previously claimed.
KW  - Nullmorphem
KW  - Verbalnomen
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/70496
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-704969
SN  - 2367-3877
VL  - 4.2020
IS  - 2
SP  - 120
EP  - 142
PB  - Peter Lang
CY  - Berlin
ER  -