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Chapter 9. Conversion in a paradigmatic framework of word formation

Abstract

This paper intends to present arguments that favour a paradigmatic approach to conversion, extending Bonami & Strnadová’s (2019) proposal of aligning relations within paradigmatic systems to the aligning relation criteria. The paper compares English and Portuguese conversion and syntactic nominalisations, according to the aligning relation criteria. Those criteria compare the different phenomena with affixed deverbal nouns situated in a paradigmatic level. A paradigmatic approach strengthens the concept of conversion as word formation because it enables us to observe an alignment between conversion pairs and affixation pairs, in contrast to syntactic nominalisations, which do not obey the same features of affixed deverbal nouns and are, thus, not aligned with them.

Abstract

This paper intends to present arguments that favour a paradigmatic approach to conversion, extending Bonami & Strnadová’s (2019) proposal of aligning relations within paradigmatic systems to the aligning relation criteria. The paper compares English and Portuguese conversion and syntactic nominalisations, according to the aligning relation criteria. Those criteria compare the different phenomena with affixed deverbal nouns situated in a paradigmatic level. A paradigmatic approach strengthens the concept of conversion as word formation because it enables us to observe an alignment between conversion pairs and affixation pairs, in contrast to syntactic nominalisations, which do not obey the same features of affixed deverbal nouns and are, thus, not aligned with them.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1. Dangerous liaisons 3
  6. Part I. Theoretical background
  7. Chapter 2. For a topology of derivational paradigms 21
  8. Part II. Compounding
  9. Chapter 3. Interlocking paradigms in English compounds 59
  10. Chapter 4. Fact-checking on compound verbs in English 69
  11. Chapter 5. Paradigm families in compounding 99
  12. Chapter 6. Derivational paradigms 129
  13. Part III. Conversion
  14. Chapter 7. Paradigmatic aspects of deverbal noun conversion in English 155
  15. Chapter 8. Paradigms in English and Czech noun/verb conversion 181
  16. Chapter 9. Conversion in a paradigmatic framework of word formation 215
  17. Chapter 10. Complex verbs 249
  18. Part IV. Participles
  19. Chapter 11. Structural and lexical aspects of the morphology of English participles 285
  20. Chapter 12. English participles in the derivational paradigm 319
  21. Part V. Paradigms in ELT
  22. Chapter 13. Derivational paradigms in ELT textbooks 343
  23. Index 379
Paradigms in Word Formation
This chapter is in the book Paradigms in Word Formation
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.225.09rod

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1. Dangerous liaisons 3
  6. Part I. Theoretical background
  7. Chapter 2. For a topology of derivational paradigms 21
  8. Part II. Compounding
  9. Chapter 3. Interlocking paradigms in English compounds 59
  10. Chapter 4. Fact-checking on compound verbs in English 69
  11. Chapter 5. Paradigm families in compounding 99
  12. Chapter 6. Derivational paradigms 129
  13. Part III. Conversion
  14. Chapter 7. Paradigmatic aspects of deverbal noun conversion in English 155
  15. Chapter 8. Paradigms in English and Czech noun/verb conversion 181
  16. Chapter 9. Conversion in a paradigmatic framework of word formation 215
  17. Chapter 10. Complex verbs 249
  18. Part IV. Participles
  19. Chapter 11. Structural and lexical aspects of the morphology of English participles 285
  20. Chapter 12. English participles in the derivational paradigm 319
  21. Part V. Paradigms in ELT
  22. Chapter 13. Derivational paradigms in ELT textbooks 343
  23. Index 379
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