Chapter 6
The characteristics of verbal derivatives in spoken British English
Article outline
- 6.1Frequency distribution of suffix categories
- 6.2The semantic profile of each suffix category
- 6.2.1The semantic profile of the [[x]
-ize]V construction
- 6.2.2The semantic profile of the [[x]
-ify]V construction
- 6.2.3The semantic profile of the [[x]
-en]V construction
- 6.2.4The semantic profile of the [[x]
-ate]V construction
- 6.2.5Comparison of suffix profiles
- 6.3Comparison of findings across corpus types
- 6.3.1Register comparisons of semantic class frequency
- 6.3.2Diachronic comparisons of semantic class frequency
- 6.4Neologisms and new senses across suffix classes and
corpora
- 6.5Summary and conclusions