Productivity and English derivation

A Corpus-Based Study

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3987592
AutoresR Harald Baayen (0000-0003-3178-3944, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Harald Baayen, Rochelle Lieber (0000-0001-8311-5257, University of New Hampshire at Manchester)
Año1991
Volumen29
Número5
Páginas801-844
Fecha de publicación1991-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLinguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ling.1991.29.5.801
OpenAlexW2015418650
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas85

The notion of productivity is one which is central to the study of morphology. It is a notion about which linguists frequently have intuitions. But it is a notion which still remains somewhat problematic in the literature on generative morphology some 15 years after Aronoff raised the issue in his (1976) monograph. In this paper we will review some of the definitions and measures of productivity discussed in the generative and pregenerative literature. We will adopt the definition of productivity suggested by Schultink (1961) and propose a number of statistical measures of productivity whose results, when applied to a fixed corpus, accord nicely with our intuitive estimates of productivity, and which shed light on the quantitative weight of linguistic restrictions on word formation rules. Part of our purpose here is also a very simple one: to make available a substantial set of empirical data concerning the productivity of some of the major derivational affixes of English

Corpus linguistics · Economics · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Productivity · Computer Science · Philosophy · Second Language Learning and Teaching