Publications

• Exploring fine restrictions in the derivation of deverbal adjectives in Greek (2021) -

Tsaprouni Eleni & Manouilidou Christina, ICGL14 Proceedings.

Abstract

This research intended to further investigate acceptability patterns of thematic and categorial violations using verb roots of various categories (causative, inchoative, causative/inchoative, subject and object experiencer verbs, state, unergative, transitive, ditransitive, perception verbs, ditransitive), in order to bring into light subtle differences in their derivation. An on-line acceptability task was conducted. 76 native speakers of Greek were asked to decide whether these words are real in Greek. A total of 501 words divided in two lists was used. The stimuli were consisted of three categories: thematic violations (191 items), categorial violations (131 items) and novel words (179 items). Results indicate that there is a range in the acceptability of both thematic violations and novel words depending on the base verb. This finding informs the current literature by showing that acceptability rates depend on specific verb categories.