How Many Conversions from Verb to Noun Are There in French?

Delphine Tribout (1)

1 LLF UMR7110 - Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle

In this paper, I discuss verb to noun conversion in French. The properties of the input verb and the output noun are presented and a formal representation is proposed using the SBCG framework. The use of such a formalism based on constraints and multiple inheritance highlights the difficulties in defining what exactly is a conversion rule. I propose that the different properties of the input verb and the output noun can be thought of as different dimensions of classification, which characterize the verb>noun conversion rule.

Mots clés: C-ACTI

Domaines: Linguistique

Delphine Tribout. How Many Conversions from Verb to Noun Are There in French?. 17th International Conference on HPSG, 2010, Stanford, United States. pp.341-357. ⟨halshs-00751187⟩