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In Portuguese, different suffixes are used to construct event
deverbal nouns from the same base verb. In this paper, we focus on deverbal
nouns constructed from causative verbs. Being event nouns, the
meanings of the derivatives of these suffixes differ slightly. We aim to
contribute to the understanding of the mechanisms involved in semantic
rivalry between affixes, specifically with regard to the knowledge of the
semantic features of the verbal base that are sensitive to the semantics
of each affix. We propose that the semantic features of the affix must be
semantically compatible with semantic features of the lexical-semantic
structure of the base verb. Because of a coindexation mechanism (Lieber
2004), the semantic features of the affix will coindex with the semantic
features of the verb that are most compatible with its own features (Rodrigues
& Rio-Torto 2013; Rodrigues 2008). Our hypothesis permits us to
explain why there are so many verbs with different deverbal nouns, with
different affixes. The affixes in those situations are not acting as rivals,
since they are not competing with each other to exclude each other.
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Causative eventive chain Portuguese deverbal nouns Semantic rivalry Word formation
Citation
Rodrigues, Alexandra Soares (2014). Causative eventive chains and selection of affixes in Portuguese nominalisations. Lingue e Linguaggio. ISSN 1720-9331. 13:2, p. 159-184
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Societa Editrice il Mulino