Constraints on nominalizations: Investigating the productivity domain of Italian "-mento" and "-zione"
- 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.
Author: | Rossella VarvaraORCiD |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-704921 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3726/zwjw.2020.02.05 |
ISSN: | 2367-3877 |
Parent Title (Multiple languages): | Zeitschrift für Wortbildung : ZWJW = Journal of word formation |
Publisher: | Peter Lang |
Place of publication: | Berlin |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2022/10/07 |
Year of first Publication: | 2020 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2022/12/23 |
GND Keyword: | Suffix; Nominalisierung; Sprachstatistik |
Volume: | 4.2020 |
Issue: | 2 |
Page Number: | 22 |
First Page: | 78 |
Last Page: | 99 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 507015169 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik | |
Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Morphologie / Morphology |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |