Deverbal nouns with the suffix -dura

This chapter focuses on the syntactic and semantic properties of Modern Spanish deverbal nouns ending in -dura. It specifically focuses on the original verb features which are preserved by these nouns, since most of them are apparently lexicalized. The nouns ending in -dura are analyzed within the framework of deverbal noun formation processes in Spanish in order to better understand their productivity, the co-existence of cognates in Modern Spanish, as well as their replacement by another noun formation process. Keywords: deverbal nouns; nominalization; suffixes; productivity