On the Semantics of -Ship and -Hood Nouns in the English Language
This paper concerns some lexico-semantic aspects regarding the semantic condition for -ship and -hood suffixations with respect to the type of predicate the nominal base belongs to. It examines the occurrence or non-occurrence of these derivations based on the already established distinction by Aronoff and Cho between stage-level and individual-level predicates. A stage-level predicate applies …
