CONSTRUCTIONAL PRODUCTIVITY: THE ROLE OF MORPHOPHONOLOGICAL COVERAGE IN THE EXTENSIBILITY OF CONSTRUCTIONAL CATEGORIES
Abstract
This paper aims to investigate the role of the morphophonological coverage in the extensibility of grammatical constructions to novel usages. Coverage is understood as the categorial space that includes attested usages of a particular grammatical construction as well as innovative ones. We take as a starting point the study by Suttle e Goldberg (2011), which demonstrates the relevance of coverage due to the combination of type frequency, semantic variability and semantic similarity effects. In this study, we aim to investigate if there a coverage effect can also be found when morphophonological features are taken into account. In order to achieve this goal, a new version of the original experiment was developed, in which verbs belonging to the three Portuguese verbal conjugations were included. In summary, the results show that, just like semantic coverage, morphophonological coverage also seems to affect constructional productivity.
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