Nominalization, verbalization or both? Insights from the directionality of noun-verb conversion in French
- Nominalization in French can be done by means of conversion, which is characterized by the identity between the base and the derived lexeme. Since both noun→verb and verb→noun conversions exist, this property raises directionality issues, and sometimes leads to contradictory analyses of the same examples. The paper presents two approaches of conversion: derivational and non-derivational ones. Then it discusses various criteria used in derivational approaches to determine the direction of conversion: diachronic ones, such as dates of first attestation or etymology; and synchronic ones, such as semantic relations, noun gender or verb inflection. All criteria are evaluated on a corpus of 3,241 French noun~verb pairs. It is shown that none of them enables to identify the direction of conversion in French. Finally, the consequences for the theory of morphology are discussed.
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| Author: | Delphine Tribout |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-705025 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3726/zwjw.2020.02.10 |
| 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: | 2023/01/11 |
| GND Keyword: | Nominalisierung; Verbalisierung; Konversion <Linguistik> |
| Volume: | 4.2020 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Page Number: | 21 |
| First Page: | 187 |
| Last Page: | 207 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 507016343 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik | |
| 4 Sprache / 44 Französisch, romanische Sprachen allgemein / 440 Romanische Sprachen; Französisch | |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Morphologie / Morphology |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
