Tsaprouni Eleni, Manouilidou Christina
Department of Comparative and General Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
J Psycholinguist Res. 2025 Jan 11;54(1):7. doi: 10.1007/s10936-024-10112-6.
Deverbal formations in Greek, e.g. mi'razo 'to distribute' < 'mirazma 'distributing' are considered morphologically complex lexical items. Previous psycholinguistic studies in Greek and English already highlighted the importance of lexical category and argument structure of the base verb in the processing of deverbal pseudowords violating constraints pertaining to these properties. A similar study in Slovenian brought into light the role of aspectual properties of the base verb during deverbal word processing. The present study revisits the role of aspect in morphological processing of deverbal word formations by looking at Greek. To this end, an offline acceptability judgement task and an online lexical decision task were conducted using different types of pseudowords, violating derivational rules. Results provide evidence that aspect affects deverbal pseudoword processing in Greek. Aspectual rules have a distinct role in relation to categorial and argument structure ones for the suffix that creates formations with unambiguous, eventive readings and which has clear event implications but not for other suffixes. The current study extends the literature to include the role of this feature in the processing of deverbal formations.
希腊语中的派生动词形式，例如mi'razo（“分配”）< mirazma（“分配”），被视为形态复杂的词汇项。先前关于希腊语和英语的心理语言学研究已经强调了基础动词的词汇类别和论元结构在处理违反与这些属性相关约束的派生动词伪词时的重要性。一项关于斯洛文尼亚语的类似研究揭示了基础动词的体貌属性在派生动词处理过程中的作用。本研究通过研究希腊语，重新审视体在派生动词构词形态处理中的作用。为此，使用不同类型的违反派生规则的伪词进行了离线可接受性判断任务和在线词汇判断任务。结果表明，体貌影响希腊语中派生动词伪词的处理。对于创造具有明确、有事件性解读且有明确事件含义的构词形式的后缀，体貌规则相对于类别和论元结构规则具有独特作用，但对其他后缀则不然。当前研究扩展了文献，将这一特征在派生动词构词处理中的作用纳入其中。
