4 décembre 2008
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Aurore Koehl, « Are French -ité Suffixed Nouns Property Nouns? », HAL-SHS : linguistique, ID : 10670/1.2ajglk
The aim of this paper is to analyse French deadjectival –ité nouns construction (AitéN), from a lexematic point of view. –ité nouns are the most frequent deadjectival nouns stored in French dictionaries. Most of the time, these nouns are analysed as denoting properties. The present analysis will show that it is not always the case. We propose here a study conducted on 499 AitéN coined on denominal adjectives. We will make use of both syntactic and semantic adjectival properties to argue that not all AitéN are property nouns. Indeed, almost a half of these nouns can be qualified as “relation nouns”.