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...
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| description | 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.
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| spelling | doaj-art-ec5848e3864245d099c2bebb115b0e8a2025-08-20T02:06:20ZdeuUniversitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am MainZeitschrift für Wortbildung2367-38772020-07-01427899https://doi.org/10.3726/zwjw.2020.02.05Constraints on nominalizations: Investigating the productivity domain of Italian "-mento" and "-zione"Rossella Varvara0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9957-2807Universität FreiburgThe 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. Dieser Beitrag ist ursprünglich im Peter-Lang-Verlag erschienen (https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/plg/jwf/2020/00000004/00000002/art00005)constraints on productivitycompetitionderivational morphologyaction nounsdeverbal nominalizationscorpus linguisticsquantitative analysis |
| spellingShingle | Rossella Varvara Constraints on nominalizations: Investigating the productivity domain of Italian "-mento" and "-zione" Zeitschrift für Wortbildung constraints on productivity competition derivational morphology action nouns deverbal nominalizations corpus linguistics quantitative analysis |
| title | Constraints on nominalizations: Investigating the productivity domain of Italian "-mento" and "-zione" |
| title_full | Constraints on nominalizations: Investigating the productivity domain of Italian "-mento" and "-zione" |
| title_fullStr | Constraints on nominalizations: Investigating the productivity domain of Italian "-mento" and "-zione" |
| title_full_unstemmed | Constraints on nominalizations: Investigating the productivity domain of Italian "-mento" and "-zione" |
| title_short | Constraints on nominalizations: Investigating the productivity domain of Italian "-mento" and "-zione" |
| title_sort | constraints on nominalizations investigating the productivity domain of italian mento and zione |
| topic | constraints on productivity competition derivational morphology action nouns deverbal nominalizations corpus linguistics quantitative analysis |
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