On the Productivity of Polish Adjectival Suffixes – Revisited Cover Image

Jeszcze raz o produktywności formantów przymiotnikowych
On the Productivity of Polish Adjectival Suffixes – Revisited

Author(s): Rafał L. Górski
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics
Published by: Wydział Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: słowotwórstwo; korpus; produktywność morfologiczna; word-formation; corpus; morphological productivity

Summary/Abstract: Productivity is a central concept of word formation. There is a general agreement that it can be defined as a degree to which a given word formation rule is able to coin new words; however when it comes to a more detailed elaboration of this definition there is no more room for unanimity. For the purpose of this presentation we adopt the hapaxconditioned measure of the degree of productivity (Baayen 1993).The paper examines Polish derived adjectives. The data are drawn from the National Corpus of Polish. We discuss and extend modifications proposed by Gaeta & Ricca (2005) which aim at overcoming some drawbacks of Baayen’s approach. Finally we compare derived adjectives attested in the National Corpus of Polish with an unabridged dictionary.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 68
  • Page Range: 111-128
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish