Rivalry between French –age and –ée: The Role of Grammatical Aspect in Nominalization

Ferret, Karen; Soare, Elena; Villoing, Florence

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“…The example above involves an -age deverbal nominal, a class recently argued by Ferret et al (2010) to involve grammatical aspectual information, i.e. imperfectivity.…”

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“…imperfectivity. One can note, for instance, the presence of aspectual PP-modifiers classically taken to be connected with aspectual information in the structure; above, -age and -ée nominals seem to instantiate an aspectual opposition, argued by Ferret et al (2010) to manifest outer Aspect, i.e. imperfectivity and perfectivity, respectively.…”

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“…This seems to be exactly the situation illustrated by some French deverbal process nominals, according to some studies. Having investigated pairs of -age/-ée nominals in French, Ferret et al (2010) put forward the idea that they convey grammatical aspect information (see also Haas 2011 for similar ideas). They base their conclusion on the fact that when built on the same base, these affixes seem to be correlated to two ways of "conceptualizing events", namely as ongoing vs. whole eventuality.…”

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“…Let me now discuss some of the main arguments put forward by Ferret et al (2010) in identifying grammatical aspect in -age/-ée pairs. Such are the context of prepositions like after (that work for -ée nominals, supposedly perfective, but not for -age, supposedly imperfective), and the compatibility with predicates like be interrupted, only possible with imperfective -age nominals.…”

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This paper addresses deverbal nominals denoting events (Complex Event Nominals or AS-Ns, Grimshaw 1990 and Borer 1999 respectively), that have been argued to convey aspectual information. I put a particular emphasis on French -age and -ée nominals, which have been argued to encode grammatical (im)perfective Aspect (Ferret et al. 2010, Knittel 2011. The aim is to contribute to a general syntactic theory of nominalizations involving aspectual projections, and to investigate their interaction with other, in particular categorizing, layers of structure. The analysis distinguishes between n-Nominalizations which involve derivational affixes introducing categorial information, and default D-Nominalizations in which the Determiner embeds aspectual (im)perfective morphology. I demonstrate that outer Aspect (an inflectional layer selecting verbalized structure) is only expected in the latter type of nominalizations, and that in the other cases, a relevant analysis should derive effects on the aspectual calculus by entailments at the level of a Classifier projection, specified in terms of +/−bounded, +/−count.

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“…The example above involves an -age deverbal nominal, a class recently argued by Ferret et al (2010) to involve grammatical aspectual information, i.e. imperfectivity.…”

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French N-age instrumentals: semantic properties of the base verb

Ferret

Villoing

2015

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The polysemy of deverbal event nouns-nominalisations-is frequently discussed in the literature. However, one interpretation associated with nominalising suffixes has never been evoked-the instrument interpretation. This paper is dedicated to the rare instrument interpretation of-age nouns (henceforth N-age): allumage 'ignition', attelage 'harness', bandage 'bandage', embrayage 'clutch', garnissage 'garnish', gommage 'scrub', maquillage 'makeup'. We present the results of a study of instrumental N-age nominals, based on a sample of the deverbal-age nouns collected from the TLFi. We outline the semantic conditions that determine the presence of the instrument interpretation for these nouns and argue that this interpretation is not based on semantic drift from the corresponding eventive N-age; rather, it results from the specific properties of the morphological rule (i.e., its possible output(s)) and from the semantic properties of the input verb. This analysis leads us to reconsider the polysemy of deverbal nouns, not as systematically based on the notion of semantic drift from a derived lexeme, but, for some interpretations, as a construct of morphological rules, given specific semantic constraints. We conclude with a formalisation of the semantic sub-pattern within the N-age rule which generates the instrumental nominal. For the semantic representation of the base verb, we follow the theoretical framework of Levin and Rappaport (1995 and later). We incorporate this semantic formalisation in the wider representation of morphological rules envisaged in lexematic morphology.

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Affix polyfunctionality in French deverbal nominalizations

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Huyghe

2022

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This article investigates the semantic polyfunctionality of affixes, i.e. their ability to serve a variety of distinct semantic functions. Based on the analysis of a sample of 3,091 deverbal nouns ending with 46 different suffixes in French, the study examines the diversity of semantic functions realized by deverbal suffixes, the distribution of these functions across suffixes and the relationships that may exist between different functions. It appears that polyfunctionality is widespread among French deverbal suffixes and involves a large number of semantic functions, with highly variable realization frequency. Several fundamental aspects of affix polyfunctionality are further highlighted. A probabilistic analysis shows that polyfunctionality can be driven by non-arbitrary semantic associations between functions. A hierarchy of functions can also be postulated depending on whether they can be instantiated by monosemous or only polysemous derivatives. In addition, polyfunctionality appears to be inseparable from rivalry relationships and to determine the degree of rivalry between affixes. Overall, the study illustrates that affix polyfunctionality is governed by systematic organizing principles whose ramifications touch on lexical ambiguity and morphological competition.

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Rivalry between French –age and –ée: The Role of Grammatical Aspect in Nominalization

Cited by 11 publications

References 7 publications

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