Cynthia Lloyd

List of John Benjamins publications in which Cynthia Lloyd is involved.

Article

Lloyd, Cynthia 2011 From denominal to deverbal: Action nouns in the English suffix -al Words in Dictionaries and History: Essays in honour of R.W. McConchie, Timofeeva, Olga and Tanja Säily (eds.), pp. 193–218 | Article

This paper deals with one of the rival French suffixes which now form abstract nouns from verbs in English, as in recite/recital. Such formatives are often seen as semantically interchangeable, forming nouns with the core meaning ‘action/fact of V-ing.’ However, it can be argued that from their… read more