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 exa...
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj-art-a764f7f8eec14eeeb4ac0849b6e082702025-08-20T03:21:01ZdeuUniversitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am MainZeitschrift für Wortbildung2367-38772020-07-0142187207https://doi.org/10.3726/zwjw.2020.02.10Nominalization, verbalization or both? Insights from the directionality of noun-verb conversion in FrenchDelphine Tribout0University of LilleNominalization 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. Dieser Beitrag ist ursprünglich im Peter-Lang-Verlag erschienen (https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/plg/jwf/2020/00000004/00000002/art00010)conversiondirectionalityhistorical criteriasynchronic criteriafrenchparadigmatic morphology |
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| title | Nominalization, verbalization or both? Insights from the directionality of noun-verb conversion in French |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Nominalization, verbalization or both? Insights from the directionality of noun-verb conversion in French |
| title_short | Nominalization, verbalization or both? Insights from the directionality of noun-verb conversion in French |
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