TY  - JOUR
A1  - Varvara, Rossella
T1  - Constraints on nominalizations: Investigating the productivity domain of Italian "-mento" and "-zione"
T2  - Zeitschrift für Wortbildung : ZWJW = Journal of word formation
N2  - The paper investigates the different productivity domains (Rainer 2005) of two Italian event denoting suffixes, -mento and -zione. These suffixes share the same eventive semantics, they are both productive and thus can be seen as rivals in the formation of event nominalizations. The aim is to obtain a better understanding of the constraints that play a role in the selection of one affix over the other. By means of a logistic regression model the contribution of different features of the base verb is investigated. The analysis is conducted on a dataset of 678 nominalizations extracted from a section of Midia, a diachronic balanced corpus explicitly built for morphological research (Gaeta 2017). Results show that the frequency, the inflectional class and the number of characters of the base verb as well as the presence of the prefix a- significantly contribute to the definition of the different domains, only partially confirming previous findings.
KW  - Suffix
KW  - Nominalisierung
KW  - Sprachstatistik
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/70492
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-704921
SN  - 2367-3877
VL  - 4.2020
IS  - 2
SP  - 78
EP  - 99
PB  - Peter Lang
CY  - Berlin
ER  -