D’une frontière à une autre La délimitation aspectuelle dans le domaine nominal

This study focuses on aspectual delimitation as expressed by nouns in French. We first distinguish two types of delimitation in the nominal domain through different linguistic manifestations : telicity as culmination and occurrentiality as temporal individuation. The second part of the paper is dedicated to the dependence between the two types of delimitation and the lexical aspect of bases from which deverbal nouns are derived. Based on a sample of three hundred neologisms formed with the suffixes -age , -ion and -ment , we investigate whether nominalization preserves telicity and we identify potential factors predicting occurrentiality.