ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with verbalization as a productive word formation process in Spanish. It presents the main empirical facts about derived verbs and then reviews analytical and theoretical issues related to verbalization. Verbalization is a word formation process whereby verbs are derived from bases belonging to other syntactic categories. Suffixation is by far the most important device used in category-changing verbal derivation. The chapter focuses on the properties of verbalizing suffixes and then focuses on the core syntactic and semantic properties of the verbs derived with three of them: -e-a-, -iz-a-, and -ec-e-. It deals with alternating corradical verbs. Suffixes are usually assumed to be the morphological head of the derived word, they are marked for a syntactic category, which they pass on to the derived word. The chapter reviews some of the analytical and theoretical challenges pertaining to word formation in general as well as issues specific to verbalization.
