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# Poster Presentation for "What’s the Meaning of a Nominal Root? Insights from Experiments into Denominals and Similarity"

Preferred citation (DataCite format):

  Bleotu, Adina Camelia; Bloem, Jelke (2021).
  Poster Presentation for "What’s the Meaning of a Nominal Root?
  Insights from Experiments into Denominals and Similarity".
  University of Arizona Research Data Repository.
  Poster. https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.14481576


Corresponding Author:
  Adina Camelia Bleotu, University of Bucharest, cameliableotu@gmail.com


License:
  CC BY 4.0


DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.14481576



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## Summary

This poster was presented on 2021 April 8 - 11 at the [39th meeting of the
West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics](https://sites.google.com/view/wccfl2021/).

Provided abstract:
We bring experimental evidence that Kiparsky’s (1997) distinction between true
denominals ("tape") and pseudo denominals ("hammer") is not structural but
pragmatic. The acceptability of sentences where denominals combine with
various PP-objects is driven by object similarity to the incorporated root
("He taped with band aids"). We investigate the nature of this similarity,
showing that participants are sensitive to multiple aspects which define
nominal roots (shape, material, use).



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## Additional Notes

Links:
  - https://sites.google.com/view/wccfl2021/

This presentation is part of the 2021 West Coast Conference on Formal
Linguistics collection, which is available here:
https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.c.5325401