TY  - JOUR
A1  - Knittel, Marie Laurence
A1  - Villoing, Florence
T1  - Instrument and Means interpretation of deverbal nominals: The role of ambiguous stative verbs in French VN compounding
T2  - Zeitschrift für Wortbildung : ZWJW = Journal of word formation
N2  - This article examines French Verb-Noun compounds with Means value (couvre-pied 'blanket', lit. cover-feet), derived from stative bases. It shows that they are generally ambiguous between Means and Instrument reading. The regularity of this double value discards an analysis relying on verbal homonymy, in favor of Rothmayr's (2009) hypothesis of bi-eventive verbs. We assume that the presence of an agentive as well as a stative component in the verbal bases accounts for the double Means/Instrument value of the VNs studied here. We also examine "pure" Instrument VNs, available with similar verbal bases. We show that the distribution of the Instrument vs. Means/Instrument values relies on the state of the referent of the noun involved in the compound after the event described by the verbal base occurred. A permanent state entails a "pure" Instrument reading, whereas Means/Instrument reading obtains if the state of N is reversible (Fábregas & Marín 2012).
KW  - Verbalnomen
KW  - Zustandsverb
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/70500
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-705003
SN  - 2367-3877
VL  - 4.2020
IS  - 2
SP  - 164
EP  - 186
PB  - Peter Lang
CY  - Berlin
ER  -