A Corpus Study of the English Suffixes "-ness" and "-acy": Productivity, Genre, and Implications for L2 Learning

Autor/inn/en	Naismith, Ben; Kanwit, Matthew
Titel	A Corpus Study of the English Suffixes "-ness" and "-acy": Productivity, Genre, and Implications for L2 Learning
Quelle	In: Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 24 (2021) 1, S.115-137 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1481-868X
Schlagwörter	Morphemes; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; English (Second Language); North American English; Computational Linguistics; Language Variation; Nouns; Morphology (Languages); Language Usage; Language Styles; Academic Language; Communicative Competence (Languages); Foreign Countries; Comparative Analysis; Language Proficiency; Intellectual Disciplines; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Morphem; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Amerikanisches Englisch; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Sprachenvielfalt; Morphology; Morphologie; Sprachgebrauch; Sprachstil; Academic; Language; Languages; Akademiker; Sprache; Wissenschaftssprache; Communicative competence; Kommunikative Kompetenz; Ausland; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Geisteswissenschaften; Großbritannien
Abstract	Despite substantial scholarship relating to word structure (Anderson, 2018), for English affixes the relationship between productivity, genre, and second language (L2) learning remains unclear. Analysis of the existing literature reveals that deadjectival noun suffixes (i.e., nouns derived from adjectives such as "appropriacy" or "goodness") have been underexamined. To address this gap, we examine two rival suffixes, "-acy" and "-ness," through the lens of Construction Morphology (Booij, 2010), considering numerous factors which might condition their varying usage. Critically, corpus data in the Corpus of Contemporary American English and the British National Corpus (Davies, 2008-) reveal the importance of considering these affixes' productivity in relation to genre, since "-acy" is especially frequent in academic texts, principally within certain social sciences. The implications for learners and teachers of English as a second language are discussed, particularly higher-level learners building communicative competence in academic contexts, along with a preliminary learner corpus comparison of the two variants. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics / Association Canadienne de Linguistique Appliquée. Departement de langues, linguistique et traduction, Pavillon de Koninck, Universite Laval, Quebec, QC G1K 7P4, Canada. Web site: http://www.aclacaal.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01