Morphological Productivity of Derivation, Compounding and Conversion process in English: A quantitative Corpus-Based Study
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https://doi.org/10.25130/Lang.9.4.P2.12Abstract
Morphological productivity is explained as the capability of a certain word formation process in producing the highest distinct word forms. Moreover, it refers to the availability of that process in the language and making new words continuously. Thus, this paper aims at investigating about the productivity of three English word formation processes theoretically and practically namely, derivation, compounding, and conversion. Accordingly, it demonstrates explanation about the nature and procedure of each process theoretically along with comprehensive examples. On the other hand, it declares their productivity practically (quantitatively) by examining the (3000) data words from the corpus. The words are selected by the researcher alphabetically from English dictionaries for designing the corpus. Besides, the selected words are defined in terms of content words only, including (nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs). It is worth mentioning that, the data is analyzed in terms of word-type based analysis which means the frequency of the different word forms are counted that is resulted from each single process.
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