This book tests semantic and quantitative-distributional criteria for directionality in present-day English noun/verb conversion. Directionality is claimed to be ascertained accurately if identified at the level of sense, not lexeme, as in Plank (2010). This is particularly relevant where polysemy allows multiple directions within a lexeme.
Tables - Figures - Abbreviations - 1 Introduction - 1.1 Focus of study -
1.2 Justification and hypothesis - 1.3 Aims and methods - 2 Directionality in
conversion - 2.1 Conversion or zero-derivation - 2.2 Approaches to conversion
- 2.3 The approach in this study - 2.4 The issue of directionality - 2.5
Criteria to determine directionality - 3 Methodological approach - 3.1
Resources: Dictionary And Corpus - 3.2 Procedures For The Analysis Of
Directionality - 3.3 Distribution Of senses into orders of derivation - 3.4
Methodological remarks - 3.5 Implications of the sense organization - 4
Applicability of the criteria for directionality - 4.1 Individual
applicability of the criteria - 4.2 Cross-criteria consistency - 4.3 Overview
on the cross-criteria consistency - 5 On the issues and relevance of the
criteria - 5.1 Introduction - 5.2 Semantic Dependence (SD) - 5.3 Semantic
Pattern (SP) - 5.4 Semantic Range (SR) - 5.5 Restrictions of Usage (RU) - 5.6
Quantitative-distributional criteria: FO And RR - 6 Conclusions - 6.1
Introduction - 6.2 Findings - 6.3 Limitations and future research -
References - Appendix
Alba E. Ruz holds a PhD in English Linguistics from the University of Granada (Spain). Her research is on English morphology, with a special focus on word formation and lexical semantics.
