Acta Linguistica Hungarica
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Volume 50: Issue 1-2
Italian prefixes and productivity: a quantitative approach
Authors:
Livio Gaeta Dipartimento di Scienze del Linguaggio University of Turin Via S. Ottavio 20 I-10124 Turin Italy

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Davide Ricca Dipartimento di Scienze del Linguaggio University of Turin Via S. Ottavio 20 I-10124 Turin Italy

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Pages:
93–112
Online Publication Date:
19 Jul 2005
Publication Date:
01 May 2003
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/aling.50.2003.1-2.6
Keywords:
morphology; hapax legomenon; text corpus; derivational cycles; Italian
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The quantitative approach to morphological productivity developed by Baayen and collaborators is crucially based on the count of hapax legomena in a given, very large textual corpus. In this paper, Baayen's main idea is applied to the little explored domain of Italian prefixation, on the basis of a 75,000,000-token newspaper corpus, and a significant improvement of his procedure is proposed by calculating productivity values at equal token numbers for different affixes. Consequently, variably-sized subcorpora must be sampled to compare affixes displaying different token frequencies. Following this approach, the Italian productive prefixes ri- and in- can be ranked by productivity within their respective derivational domains, and the impact of different derivational cycles on the measure of productivity can be dealt with satisfactorily.

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Acta Linguistica Hungarica
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