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How is "stickage" different from "sticking"? A study of the semantic behaviour of V-age and V-ing nominalisations (on monomorphemic bases)

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This chapter aims to provide a combined lexicographic and corpus-based distributional semantic analysis of the competing nominalisations V-age and V-ing. The starting point is a diachronic study of V-age nominals using the historical Oxford English Dictionary (OED) in order to determine the diachronic evolution of this morphological pattern. A conceptual analysis of the dictionary definitions provides a semantic typology of V-age nouns, which we then compare with the considerably more frequent V-ing nouns. Following the lexicographic treatment which provides some competing pairs of V-age and V-ing nominals, such as stickage and sticking, we test the distributional semantic behaviour of a small sample V-age and V-ing pairs in order to identify their specificities in both diachronic and synchronic corpora. The continued co-existence of the low-frequency V-age nouns with high-frequency V-ing nouns remains of interest, showing that morphological productivity and life cycles of patterns are not simply a matter of competition, but rather one of lexical variety. The conclusions of this small-scale study confirm that the competition within the semantic space of nominalisations requires a fine-grained register specific corpus-based study which will provide a more accurate visualization of the ‘ecology’ of these nominalisations to quote Rochelle Lieber.

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hal-04567161 , version 1 (03-05-2024)

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Chris Chris A. Smith. How is "stickage" different from "sticking"? A study of the semantic behaviour of V-age and V-ing nominalisations (on monomorphemic bases). Laure Gardelle; Elise Mignot; Julie Neveux. Nouns and the Morphosyntax / Semantics Interface, Springer International Publishing, pp.445-475, 2024, 978-3-031-44560-6. ⟨10.1007/978-3-031-44561-3_16⟩. ⟨hal-04567161⟩
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