Ingo Plag|Christiane Dalton?Puffer|Harald Baayen
Morphological productivity across speech and writing
Hanover College|University of Vienna|Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
claims productivity given affix generally made without differentiating productivity according type discourse although commonly assumed certain kinds derivational suffixes pertinent certain kinds texts others conversely studies register variation paid little attention role derivational morphology may play register variation paper explores relation register variation derivational morphology quantitative investigation productivity number english derivational suffixes across three types discourse british national corpus written language contextgoverned spoken language everyday conversations three main points emerge analysis first within single register different suffixes may differ enormously productivity even structurally constrained similar extent second across three registers investigation given suffix may display vast differences productivity third register variation suffixes uniform ie suffixes show differences productivity across registers suffixes lesser extent offer tentative explanations findings discuss implications morphological theory