@misc{10481/83648,
year = {2023},
month = {6},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/83648},
abstract = {The semantics of zero-derivation/conversion has attracted renewed interest both as a subject of description and as a means towards refined descriptions of the process. This paper takes the latter stance and compares which semantic categories occur in zero-derivation/conversion and in overt affixation in two languages with a different morphological model: English and Spanish. For attestation and distribution of the semantic categories, the paper relies on a stratified sample of denominal verbs collected from two comparable corpora: the British National Corpus and the Corpus de Referencia del Espanol Actual. The sample consists in sets of ca. 50 denominal verb-forming resources, one per affixation process, namely affixation by -ate, -(i)fy, -ize/-ise, -en, en- in English, a- horizontal ellipsis -ar, en- horizontal ellipsis -ar, -ear, -ecer, -(i)ficar, -izar in Spanish, and zero-derivation/conversion in both languages. The results are contrasted within and across affixes/processes, within each language and across the two languages for the adequacy of a description as zero-derivation or as conversion. Statistical analysis shows that the process/affixes form a cline with overlaps and closer associations between specific affixes/processes and semantic categories, but no clear divide between zero-derivation/conversion and the rest of processes as far as the semantic categories are concerned.},
organization = {Spanish State Research Agency (SRA, Ministry of Science and Innovation)},
organization = {European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) PID2020-119851GB-I00-AEI-10.13039-501100011033},
publisher = {De Gruyter Mouton},
keywords = {Zero-derivation},
keywords = {Conversion},
keywords = {Affixation},
keywords = {Semantic categories},
keywords = {English},
keywords = {Spanish},
title = {The semantics of noun-to-verb zero-derivation in English and Spanish},
doi = {10.1515/zfs-2022-2016},
author = {Valera Hernández, Salvador},
}