In:A Constructional Account of Verb-Forming Suffixation
Jacqueline Laws
[Constructional Approaches to Language 36] 2023
► pp. xvii–xx
Published online: 19 September 2023
https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.36.lot
https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.36.lot
List of tables
Table 2.1Distribution of derivatives across suffix categories (types and
percentages)
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Table 2.2Content, register types, word, speaker and text counts for the three
corpora
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Table 2.3Context-governed domains and text types in the CG1994
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Table 2.4Transparency classification for verbal derivative bases through
suffixation
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Table 2.5Type and token frequencies and percentages of suffix categories and
derivative transparency classes
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Table 2.6Comparison between verbal derivative type counts with and without Participial
and Nominal forms
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Table 2.7Raw and normalized type and token frequencies by corpus
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Table 2.8Raw and normalized token frequencies of all tensed verbs by corpus
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Table 2.9Raw and normalized token frequencies of grammatical features by
corpus
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Table 3.1Semantic categories of derivative verbs, paraphrases and examples (Plag 1999)
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Table 3.2Semantic categories of derivative verbs, paraphrases and examples (Lieber 2004)
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Table 3.3Range of meanings conveyed by verbal derivatives reported in the
literature
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Table 3.4Initial categorization of established and proposed semantic categories
attested across verbal suffix types
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Table 4.1Some examples of constructions at different levels of complexity and
abstraction
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Table 4.2Central sense and extensions to the Ditransitive construction
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Table 5.1Definitions of the three senses of blacken
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Table 5.2Definitions of the three senses of justify
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Table 5.3Definitions of the three senses of normalize
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Table 5.4Semantic classes of verbs occurring in the as-Predicative
construction
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Table 5.5Correspondence between semantic classes of derivatives and relevant verb
classes occurring in the as-Predicative construction
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Table 5.6Locative: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
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Table 5.7Ornative: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
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Table 5.8Inchoative-Ornative: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
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Table 5.9Causative: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
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Table 5.10Inchoative-Causative: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
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Table 5.11Resultative: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
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Table 5.12Inchoative-Resultative: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
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Table 5.13Performative: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
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Table 5.14Similative: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
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Table 5.15Imposative: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
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Table 5.16Inchoative-Imposative: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
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Table 5.17Regardative: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
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Table 5.18Representative: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
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Table 5.19Achievement: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
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Table 5.20Conformative: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
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Table 5.21Inchoative-Conformative: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
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Table 5.22Defining: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
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Table 5.23Determinative: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
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Table 5.24Acknowledging: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
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Table 5.25Confirmative: Verb-class-specific groupings with form and token
frequencies
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Table 5.26Tsunoda’s Affectedness Classification system
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Table 5.27Unclassified Transitive Change-of-State verbs with form and token
frequencies
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Table 5.28Unclassified Intransitive Change-of-State verbs with form and token
frequencies
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Table 5.29Unclassified Transitive Non-Change-of-State verbs with form and token
frequencies
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Table 5.30Unclassified Intransitive Non-Change-of-State verbs with form and token
frequencies
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Table 5.31Unclassified forms and tokens as a proportion of all Unclassified verbal
derivatives and all semantic categories
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Table 5.32Categories of verbal derivatives rank ordered by form and token
frequencies
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Table 5.33List of semantic categories and related constructions
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Table 6.1Number of types, forms and tokens across suffixed verbal derivatives
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Table 6.2Number of derivative forms attested for each semantic category across
suffixes
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Table 6.3Raw and normalized (per million) derivative form and token frequencies by
corpus
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Table 6.4Frequency and percentages of neologisms and new senses across suffix
classes
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