Deverbal nouns and historical development
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The document discusses the historical development of deverbal nouns in Norwegian. It proposes three hypotheses: 1) Deverbal nouns have both verbal and nominal features, with younger nouns being more "verby" and older ones more "nouny". 2) The preposition "av" can function both as a lexical and grammatical preposition with deverbal nouns. 3) Frequency data from corpora provide evidence that deverbal nouns become increasingly nominal over time, losing verbal features like argument structure and gaining nominal features.
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- 1. Deverbal nouns and historical development Øivin Andersen, Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies
- 12. Testing DNH1: Norwegian Newspaper corpus: 430 mill. ord Gr. - Lex 0 - 30 7 30 slag av 133 - 53 43 186 drap av 0 - 153 35 153 skudd av 200 - 0 3828 16319 salg av 200 - 0 1817 7747 kjøp av 16- 14 7 30 brudd av F of prep av for first 200 occur Rel.freq. per 100 mill.words absolute frequency deverbal noun + prep.
- 21. Token frequency for deverbal zero suffix nouns plus preposition av 30 0 7 30 Slag av 53 133 43 186 Drap av 153 0 35 153 Skudd av 0 200 3828 16319 Salg av 0 200 1817 7747 Kjøp av 14 16 7 30 Brudd av Non-partici-pant Partici-pant Rel. Frequen-cy Abs. Frequen-cy DN+ prep
- 22. Token frequency for deverbal zero suffix noun plus preposition på Non-partici-pant Parici-pant Rel. Frequen-cy Abs. Frequen-cy DN+ prep 190 10 77 247 Slag på 11 189 1499 6285 Drap på 199 1 238 1017 Skudd på 194 6 297 1269 Salg på 156 44 48 206 Kjøp på 0 200 3252 13634 Brudd på
- 23. Argument and participant structure with zero suffix nouns. little full high predictable kjøp kjøpe little full high Idiosyn-cratic salg selge Almost full some low Idiosyn-cratic drap drepe full some low Idiosyn-cratic brudd bryte little no low Idiosyn-cratic slag slå no no low Idiosyn-cratic skudd skyte Participant structure Argument strucure Frequency Predicta-bility Deverbal noun Infinitive
- 26. Aspect and arg. structure with zero suffix nouns plus prep. av 0 19 4 19 Sparking av 16 6 5 22 Spark av 0 74 16 74 Vasking av 0 137 31 137 Vask av Lexical prep Grammatical prep Rel.freq. Abs.freq. DN+prep
- 27. Aspect and arg. Structure with zero suffix nouns plus prep. på 2 0 0 2 sparking på 90 110 81 355 spark på 5 0 1 5 vasking på 23 0 5 23 vask på Non-partic-ipant Partici-pant Rel. freq Abs. freq. DN + prep
- 28. Dist. of perfective (result) and imperfective (process) with zero suffix and –ing nouns plus prep. av 19 0 Sparking av 6 15 Spark av 74 0 Vasking av 137 0 Vask av Imperfective/ process Perfective/ result DN + prep.
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