List of tables
Table 2.1
Distribution of derivatives across suffix categories (types and
percentages)
18
Table 2.2
Content, register types, word, speaker and text counts for the three
corpora
21
Table 2.3
Context-governed domains and text types in the CG1994
22
Table 2.4
Transparency classification for verbal derivative bases through
suffixation
26
Table 2.5
Type and token frequencies and percentages of suffix categories and
derivative transparency classes
38
Table 2.6
Comparison between verbal derivative type counts with and without Participial
and Nominal forms
39
Table 2.7
Raw and normalized type and token frequencies by corpus
42
Table 2.8
Raw and normalized token frequencies of all tensed verbs by corpus
44
Table 2.9
Raw and normalized token frequencies of grammatical features by
corpus
45
Table 3.1
Semantic categories of derivative verbs, paraphrases and examples (Plag 1999)
52
Table 3.2
Semantic categories of derivative verbs, paraphrases and examples (Lieber 2004)
56
Table 3.3
Range of meanings conveyed by verbal derivatives reported in the
literature
68
Table 3.4
Initial categorization of established and proposed semantic categories
attested across verbal suffix types
80
Table 4.1
Some examples of constructions at different levels of complexity and
abstraction
84
Table 4.2
Central sense and extensions to the Ditransitive construction
91
Table 5.1
Definitions of the three senses of
blacken
121
Table 5.2
Definitions of the three senses of
justify
122
Table 5.3
Definitions of the three senses of
normalize
123
Table 5.4
Semantic classes of verbs occurring in the
as-Predicative
construction
130
Table 5.5
Correspondence between semantic classes of derivatives and relevant verb
classes occurring in the
as-Predicative construction
131
Table 5.6
Locative: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
138
Table 5.7
Ornative: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
142
Table 5.8
Inchoative-Ornative: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
149
Table 5.9
Causative: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
153
Table 5.10
Inchoative-Causative: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
157
Table 5.11
Resultative: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
159
Table 5.12
Inchoative-Resultative: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
160
Table 5.13
Performative: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
162
Table 5.14
Similative: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
164
Table 5.15
Imposative: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
166
Table 5.16
Inchoative-Imposative: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
169
Table 5.17
Regardative: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
170
Table 5.18
Representative: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
172
Table 5.19
Achievement: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
174
Table 5.20
Conformative: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
178
Table 5.21
Inchoative-Conformative: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
181
Table 5.22
Defining: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
183
Table 5.23
Determinative: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
185
Table 5.24
Acknowledging: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
186
Table 5.25
Confirmative: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
188
Table 5.26
Tsunoda’s Affectedness Classification system
189
Table 5.27
Unclassified Transitive Change-of-State verbs with form and token
frequencies
191
Table 5.28
Unclassified Intransitive Change-of-State verbs with form and token
frequencies
191
Table 5.29
Unclassified Transitive Non-Change-of-State verbs with form and token
frequencies
192
Table 5.30
Unclassified Intransitive Non-Change-of-State verbs with form and token
frequencies
193
Table 5.31
Unclassified forms and tokens as a proportion of all Unclassified verbal
derivatives and all semantic categories
194
Table 5.32
Categories of verbal derivatives rank ordered by form and token
frequencies
195
Table 5.33
List of semantic categories and related constructions
199
Table 6.1
Number of types, forms and tokens across suffixed verbal derivatives
204
Table 6.2
Number of derivative forms attested for each semantic category across
suffixes
206
Table 6.3
Raw and normalized (per million) derivative form and token frequencies by
corpus
217
Table 6.4
Frequency and percentages of neologisms and new senses across suffix
classes
223