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Italian prefixes and productivity: a quantitative approach

Gaeta, Livio and Ricca, Davide (2003) Italian prefixes and productivity: a quantitative approach. Acta Linguistica Hungarica, 50 (1-2). pp. 93-112. ISSN 1216-8076

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Abstract

The quantitative approach to morphological productivity developed by Baayen and collaborators is crucially based on the count of hapax legomena in a given, very large textual corpus. In this paper, Baayen's main idea is applied to the little explored domain of Italian prefixation, on the basis of a 75,000,000-token newspaper corpus, and a significant improvement of his procedure is proposed by calculating productivity values at equal token numbers for different affixes. Consequently, variably-sized subcorpora must be sampled to compare affixes displaying different token frequencies. Following this approach, the Italian productive prefixes ri- and in- can be ranked by productivity within their respective derivational domains, and the impact of different derivational cycles on the measure of productivity can be dealt with satisfactorily.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > P0 Philology. Linguistics / filológia, nyelvészet
Depositing User: xFruzsina xPataki
Date Deposited: 14 Jun 2017 19:45
Last Modified: 04 Apr 2023 12:53
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/54858

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