Ordering Paradoxes in English Suffixation

• 발행기관: 경희대학교 언어정보연구소
• 저자명: Ju-Eun Lee Sung-Hoon Hong
• 간행물 정보: 『언어연구』제28권 제1호, 95~115쪽, 전체 21쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2011.04.30

영문 초록

This paper is an attempt to explain ordering paradoxes found in English suffixation. On the assumption that the order of suffix attachment follows Siegel‘s (1974) Level Ordering Hypothesis, we obtain attested suffix combinations from the CELEX lexical database (Baayen et a1. 1995), and analyze them using the concept of productivity proposed by Hay & Baayen (2002). It is found, however, that the productivity approach alone does not explain the attested order of suffixes properly. In this paper, we rather propose an account of ordering paradoxes based on the notion of relative frequencies (Hay 2002, 2003): Ordering paradoxes come about when the relative frequency of a suffixed word is greater than 1, or put it differently, when a suffixed word is used more frequently than its base word so that the suffixed word behaves like one lexicalized whole.

목차

1. Introduction

2. LOH and Ordering Paradoxes

3. Productivity-based Approach to Suffix Order

4. Ordering Paradoxes in Terms Relative Frequency

5. Conclusion

Appendix

References

키워드

suffix order Lever Ordering Hypothesis ordering paradoxes productivity relative frequencies