Abstract
The present study explores the semantic and structural aspects of word formation processes in English, focusing on how verbs are derived by the suffixes -ize, -ify, -en, and -ate. Based on relevant derivatives extracted from the British National Corpus, their detailed observation is made from semantic and formal viewpoints. Then their theoretical analysis is carried out in the framework of generative theory. The BNC survey demonstrates that (i) the meanings of derived verbs are largely divided into five types and the submeanings are closely related to each other, (ii) the well-formedness of derived verbs is primarily determined by the semantic and formal features of their bases, and (iii) -ize suffixation is creative enough to provide a constant supply for new labels. To account for these empirical observations, the mechanism for forming -ize derivatives is proposed in which the semantic properties and creativity of -ize derivation stem solely from the underlying structure and the formal properties of the bases derive from the lexical entry of -ize.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.clib-1.10
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2022)
- Month:
- September
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Sofia, Bulgaria
- Venue:
- CLIB
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Department of Computational Linguistics, IBL -- BAS
- Note:
- Pages:
- 89–97
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.clib-1.10
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Junya Morita. 2022. Corpus-Based Research into Verb-Forming Suffixes in English: Its Empirical and Theoretical Consequences. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2022), pages 89–97, Sofia, Bulgaria. Department of Computational Linguistics, IBL -- BAS.
- Cite (Informal):
- Corpus-Based Research into Verb-Forming Suffixes in English: Its Empirical and Theoretical Consequences (Morita, CLIB 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/corrections-2024-07/2022.clib-1.10.pdf