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Developing a resource for -ance nouns, and related verbs and adjectives

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This article introduces the AdVeNance 1 resource, which includes 112 French nouns ending in-ance (Nance) (e.g. résistance 'resistance'), extracted from Lexique3 (New et al. 2001), and their related verbs and/or adjectives, and how it enabled us to verify the Extended Boundedness Hypothesis, an enlarged version of the Boundedness Hypothesis (Jackendoff, 1991). We describe the procedure we followed to extract relevant data from Lexique3 and the tests we used to pair Nance with their relevant bases. The correlation between the mass/count properties of Nance, the (a)telicity of the related verbs, and the open/closed scale of the related adjectives is then discussed in detail. Our results show that over 90% of Nance are mass. Mass Nance are mostly related to stative verbs and unbounded adjectives, in line with the Extended Boundedness Hypothesis. As for count Nance, all are related to telic verbs, but a significant number of them are unexpectedly paired with non-degree (vs bounded) adjectives. Therefore, the EBH is only partially confirmed by count Nance. So as to expand AdVeNance, we began to examine nouns in-ence (Nence, e.g. préférence 'preference'). A preliminary analysis of these nouns and their verbal bases reveals that, similarly to Nance, most Nence are mass, and most of mass Nence derive from stative verbs.
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hal-03503189 , version 1 (27-12-2021)

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Marie Laurence Knittel, Rafael Marin. Developing a resource for -ance nouns, and related verbs and adjectives. Third International Workshop on Resources and Tools for Derivational Morphology (DeriMo 2021), Sep 2021, Nancy, France. ⟨hal-03503189⟩
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