RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Koutsoukos, Nikos YR 2021 T1 Denominal verb formationin English and Modern Greek JF Languages in Contrast VO 21 IS 1 SP 138 OP 161 DO https://doi.org/10.1075/lic.19020.kou PB John Benjamins SN 1387-6759, AB Abstract

Cross-linguistically, there are different patterns for denominal verb formation and languages show preferences for certain patterns (cf. McIntyre, 2015). In this paper, I focus on denominal verb formation in English and Modern Greek. The analyzed data come from the TenTen corpora (Sketch Engine, Kilgariff , 2014). The first aim is to quantify the use of the patterns of denominal verb formations in both languages. The results of the analysis corroborate the findings of previous analyses, such as the strong preference for conversion for denominal verb formation in English and for suffixation in Modern Greek. However, the present paper aims to go a step further. The second aim is to discuss why English and Modern Greek show these preferences. I propose that the preferences can be explained if we correlate the parameters of inflectional marking, word order/configurationality, system of lexical category assignment and boundary permeability., UL https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/lic.19020.kou