Causativity in zero and overt nominalizations: An experimental study
We experimentally evaluate three patterns of deverbal nominalizations derived by means of zero, -ing and Romance suffixes (i.e., -(at)ion, -ment, and -ance) in English as to whether they can express causativity and anticausativity like their base verbs. We report the results of a first study which u...
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| description | We experimentally evaluate three patterns of deverbal nominalizations derived by means of zero, -ing and Romance suffixes (i.e., -(at)ion, -ment, and -ance) in English as to whether they can express causativity and anticausativity like their base verbs. We report the results of a first study which uses native speaker judgments to test the acceptability of these competing nominalizing suffixes (-ing vs. zero and -ing vs. Romance suffixes) in realizing event readings with argument structure inherited from their causative, and respectively, anticausative base verbs. While previous literature claims that zero cannot realize the structurally more complex causative readings, and -ing cannot realize anticausative readings, our current results indicate that all three suffixes may realize both types of readings. This is in line with data attested in natural text corpora and suggests that zero suffixes are not necessarily structurally simpler than overt suffixes as often claimed in previous literature. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-6a659b907bb046f6a9ce60149bfa93992025-08-20T02:38:18ZdeuUniverzita Karlova, Filozofická fakultaLinguistica Pragensia0862-84321805-96352025-06-013513353https://doi.org/10.14712/18059635.2025.1.3Causativity in zero and overt nominalizations: An experimental studyGianina Iordăchioaia0Jeannique Darby1University of GrazUniversity College VoldaWe experimentally evaluate three patterns of deverbal nominalizations derived by means of zero, -ing and Romance suffixes (i.e., -(at)ion, -ment, and -ance) in English as to whether they can express causativity and anticausativity like their base verbs. We report the results of a first study which uses native speaker judgments to test the acceptability of these competing nominalizing suffixes (-ing vs. zero and -ing vs. Romance suffixes) in realizing event readings with argument structure inherited from their causative, and respectively, anticausative base verbs. While previous literature claims that zero cannot realize the structurally more complex causative readings, and -ing cannot realize anticausative readings, our current results indicate that all three suffixes may realize both types of readings. This is in line with data attested in natural text corpora and suggests that zero suffixes are not necessarily structurally simpler than overt suffixes as often claimed in previous literature.https://linguisticapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2025/05/Gianina_Iordachioaia_-_Jeannique_Darby_33-53.pdfanticausativitycausativity-ing suffixnominalizationromance suffixeszero suffix |
| spellingShingle | Gianina Iordăchioaia Jeannique Darby Causativity in zero and overt nominalizations: An experimental study Linguistica Pragensia anticausativity causativity -ing suffix nominalization romance suffixes zero suffix |
| title | Causativity in zero and overt nominalizations: An experimental study |
| title_full | Causativity in zero and overt nominalizations: An experimental study |
| title_fullStr | Causativity in zero and overt nominalizations: An experimental study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Causativity in zero and overt nominalizations: An experimental study |
| title_short | Causativity in zero and overt nominalizations: An experimental study |
| title_sort | causativity in zero and overt nominalizations an experimental study |
| topic | anticausativity causativity -ing suffix nominalization romance suffixes zero suffix |
| url | https://linguisticapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2025/05/Gianina_Iordachioaia_-_Jeannique_Darby_33-53.pdf |
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