Denominal verb formationin English and Modern Greek

IF 0.5 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Languages in Contrast Pub Date : 2020-08-18 DOI:10.1075/lic.19020.kou

Nikos Koutsoukos

引用次数: 5

Abstract

Abstract Cross-linguistically, there are different patterns for denominal verb formation and languages show preferences for certain patterns (cf. McIntyre, 2015 ). In this paper, I focus on denominal verb formation in English and Modern Greek. The analyzed data come from the TenTen corpora (Sketch Engine, Kilgariff et al., 2014 ). The first aim is to quantify the use of the patterns of denominal verb formations in both languages. The results of the analysis corroborate the findings of previous analyses, such as the strong preference for conversion for denominal verb formation in English and for suffixation in Modern Greek. However, the present paper aims to go a step further. The second aim is to discuss why English and Modern Greek show these preferences. I propose that the preferences can be explained if we correlate the parameters of inflectional marking, word order/configurationality, system of lexical category assignment and boundary permeability.

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英语和现代希腊语中名动词的构成

从跨语言的角度来看，名动词的形成有不同的模式，语言对某些模式有偏好(cf. McIntyre, 2015)。本文主要研究英语和现代希腊语中名动词的构成。分析的数据来自tenen语料库(Sketch Engine, Kilgariff et al.， 2014)。第一个目的是量化两种语言中名动词构成模式的使用。分析结果证实了先前分析的发现，例如英语中对动词名形形式的转换和现代希腊语中对后缀形式的转换的强烈偏好。然而，本文的目的是更进一步。第二个目的是讨论为什么英语和现代希腊语表现出这些偏好。我提出，如果我们将屈折标记、词序/配置性、词汇类别分配系统和边界渗透性等参数联系起来，就可以解释这种偏好。

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Languages in Contrast LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS-

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1.50

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40.00%

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期刊介绍： Languages in Contrast aims to publish contrastive studies of two or more languages. Any aspect of language may be covered, including vocabulary, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, text and discourse, stylistics, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics. Languages in Contrast welcomes interdisciplinary studies, particularly those that make links between contrastive linguistics and translation, lexicography, computational linguistics, language teaching, literary and linguistic computing, literary studies and cultural studies.