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Is there a productive morphological pattern for deriving an action/state noun from a verb?

Summary

An action nominalization derives from a verb and functions like a noun or noun phrase. The result denotes an action or state. In English, we can exemplify this with the enemy’s destruction of the city. Arrive - arriving could also serves as an example, or, in Spanish, La concentración de Sherlock Holmes duró cinco horas. ‘Sherlock Holmes’ concentration lasted five hours’. This feature targets phonologically bound overt nominalizers, including affixes, clitics, tonal markers, reduplication, ablaut, etc. There needs to be productive derivation. The derived noun may also refer to states or events in addition to actions. The nominalization strategy may also derive other types of nominalization. Compounds of a verb root and a noun meaning 'action', 'state' or 'event are not action nominalizations unless further grammaticalized.

Procedure

Code 1 if there is an element that productively attaches to verbs that forms an action/state nominalization such as arrival, concentration, etc.
Do not code 1 if the relevant nouns are stated to be nouns in their own right and not derived.
If nominalization is not discussed whatsoever, code ?.
If nominalization is discussed at some length, but action/state nominalizations are not mentioned, code 0.

Examples

Chukchii (ISO 639-3: ckt, Glottolog: chuk1273)

The suffix -ɣərɣ(+VH) in Chukchii derives an action noun from a verb. ((+VH) indicates that it triggers dominant vowel harmony.) Chukchii is coded as 1 for this feature.

For example, the verb wʔi 'die' with an iterative aspect marker -tko can be nominalized with -ɣərɣ(+VH). The resulting noun means 'plague/epidemic/death' (Dunn 1999:144):

wʔe-tko-ɣərɣ-ə-n 
die-ITER-NMLZ-ə-3SG.ABS
'his death'

References

Dunn, Michael J. 1999. A Grammar of Chukchi. Canberra: Australian National University. (Doctoral dissertation, Australian National University)

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