Chapter 2
Form and register characteristics of verbal derivatives
Article outline
- 2.1Verb-forming suffixation
- 2.1.1The suffix -ize
- 2.1.2The suffix -ify
- 2.1.3The suffix -en
- 2.1.4The suffix -ate
- 2.1.5Comparison of verb-forming suffixes
- 2.2Study 1 Methodology: Corpus-based analysis
- 2.2.1Data sources
- 2.2.1.1Content of the three corpora
- 2.2.1.2Everyday spoken British English: Two corpora 20 years
apart
- 2.2.1.3Two synchronous corpora: Two levels of formality
in spoken British English
- 2.2.2Corpus search for verbal derivative forms
- 2.2.3Selection of target verbal derivatives
- 2.2.4Classification of derivatives by transparency
- 2.2.5Classification of derivatives by grammatical class
- 2.2.5.1The main verb
- 2.2.5.2Stative Passives and Predicative Participial
Adjectives
- 2.2.5.3Premodification
- 2.2.5.4Postmodification
- 2.2.5.5Clause-level structures
- 2.2.5.6Nominals and other word class structures
- 2.2.5.7Summary of register-related predictions for the
grammatical analysis
- 2.2.6Preliminaries regarding corpus data analysis and
representation
- 2.3Study 1 Results and discussion: Corpus-based analysis
- 2.3.1Frequency of suffix categories
- 2.3.2Variation within suffix categories: Grammatical
analysis
- 2.3.3Overview of inter-corpus differences
- 2.3.4Variation across the spoken corpora: Grammatical
analysis
- 2.4Summary and conclusions
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Notes