Paradigms in word formation: what are we up to?

Hathout, Nabil; Namer, Fiammetta

doi:10.1007/s11525-019-09344-3

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“…On a related note, several locative out-verbs are part of derivational paradigms (see e.g. Hathout andNamer 2019, Bonami andStrnadová 2019 for overviews). As in (38-a), for example, we frequently find antonymic verbs prefixed with in-, while we also find event and object nominalizations that are semantically closely related to the respective verbal forms, as in (38-b) (all attested in the OED): 17 The situation is certainly very different for comparative out-.…”

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Modeling locative prefix semantics. A formal account of the English verbal prefix out-

Kotowski¹

2023

Morphology

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The English verbal prefix out- gives rise to at least two semantic categories: comparative forms as in to outplay someone and locative forms as in to outstream from somewhere. While most available studies on the comparative sense rely on insufficient databases, systematic studies on the actual behavior of locative verbal out-forms are lacking altogether. Building on a set of more than 1,500 tokens culled from corpora, this study is the first to systematically analyze, formalize, and contrast the two senses. The formal analysis will be couched in frame semantics and model both individual attested examples as well as lexeme-formation rules based on generalizations. Formalizations of the two prefixes, and their implications, are shown to speak against an analysis of one underlying, underspecified prefix. Locative out- essentially functions as a morphologically bound, and highly restricted, version of out- as a particle, while comparative out- is a highly specialized, idiosynchratic construction.

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Modeling locative prefix semantics. A formal account of the English verbal prefix out-

Kotowski¹

2023

Morphology

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“…In such paradigms, derivational relations are regarded as multidirectional relations between members of a family. Hathout and Namer (2019) noticed that one advantage of a paradigmatic approach to derivation is that it enables analyses of phenomena that are not easily described by traditional directional rules. Conversion, with its directionality problems, is undoubtly one of these phenomena.…”

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Nominalization, verbalization or both? Insights from the directionality of noun-verb conversion in French

Tribout¹

2020

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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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“…Building on the rather scarce but seminal works of the field's forerunners such as Dokulil (1962), Horecký et al (1989), van Marle (1995), Bauer (1997), and Furdík (2004), the recent decade has brought a number of significant contributions to the problems of derivational paradigms. Worth mentioning in particular are those of Roché et al (2011), Ševčíková and Žabokrtský (2014), Štekauer (2014), Pala and Šmerk (2015), Boyé and Schalchli (2016, 2019), Rodrigues and Rodrigues (2017), Bonami and Strnadová (2019), Gaeta and Angster (2019), Hathout and Namer (2019), the collection of papers in Fernández-Domínguez et al (2020), and Körtvélyessy et al (2020). The latter monograph introduced a new theoretical and methodological approach to the cross-linguistic examination of derivational relations, serving as a point of departure for a comparison of onomatopoeia-based (OW-based) derivational networks in English and in Slovak.…”

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Derivational networks of onomatopoeias in English and Slovak

Körtvélyessy

Andrej²

2023

Can. J. Linguist.

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This article presents research into derivational properties of onomatopoeias in English and in Slovak. Onomatopoeias are defined narrowly in our approach, being restricted to the direct imitation of sounds of extra-linguistic reality. Our sample of 40 onomatopoeic words consists of two sound types: the sounds of animals and the sounds resulting from various falls, strokes, and bursts. A derivational network was produced for each such word. The evaluation parameters comprise derivational capacity, maximum derivational network, saturation value, number of derivation orders, most productive semantic categories by order of derivation, typical combinations of semantic categories, and derivational processes. An evaluation of the networks enabled us to answer the question of whether onomatopoeias are productive word-formation bases, to compare the two Sound Types, and to compare onomatopoeia-based networks to those based on non-iconic vocabulary. These results contribute to a better understanding of the word-formation systems in the compared languages and of the status of onomatopoeias with regard to non-iconic vocabulary.

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Paradigms in word formation: what are we up to?

Cited by 17 publications

References 23 publications

Modeling locative prefix semantics. A formal account of the English verbal prefix out-

Modeling locative prefix semantics. A formal account of the English verbal prefix out-

Nominalization, verbalization or both? Insights from the directionality of noun-verb conversion in French

Derivational networks of onomatopoeias in English and Slovak

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