Nouns derived from verbs with suppletive roots: A corpus-based study of action nouns with the roots klád and lož
Abstract
In the word-formation chapters of František Štícha's newest grammar, suffixless action nouns are provided with contexts demonstrating that they can be interpreted both perfectively and imperfectively, i.e., in relation to the verbs with both the perfective and imperfective aspect (e.g. hvizd 'whistle' < hvízdat_impf 'to whistle_impf'|hvízdnout_pf 'to whistle_pf'). In support of Štícha's analysis, the present paper deals with action nouns derived from verbs with the suppletive roots klád and lož (e.g. překládat_impf 'to replace_impf'|přeložit_pf 'to replace_pf'), containing various suffixes, e.g. -ba (sklad-ba 'composition'), -ka (pře-klád-ka 'replacement') or -0 (pře-klad-0 'translation').
Although these nouns refer formally to a particular member of the aspectual pair (přeložka 'replacement' - přeložit_pf 'to replace_pf', překládka 'replacement' < překládat_impf 'to replace_impf'), corpus data documents that they are used in the same contexts and are mutually interchangeable, which is in line with ou