denominal

The process is sometimes called denominal derivation, and it’s extremely widely studied in linguistics and psycholinguistics, as it provides a lot of interesting clues not only into the, shall we say, archeology of language, but also into semantics and how we process meaning.

The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs” 2010

The verbs are called denominal verbs, and you use them all the time for example, “hammer”, because many if not most verbs are denominal verbs.

The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs” 2010

The verbs are called denominal verbs, and you use them all the time (for example, “hammer”), because many if not most verbs are denominal verbs.

The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs” 2010

The form *mlit-ye- is distinctly Indo-European but as you note and I didn't realize that until you mentioned it, the zerograded initial syllable and shifted accent is atypical for denominal presents in *-ye-.

Missing honey 2010

The word you usually hear of 'being drunk' is *medhu-ske/o- an obvious denominal verb See Greek:

Enticed by a drunken thought 2008

The suffix *-ye/o- is found in presentives, in denominal verbs and I'd dare even say fossilized to the causative in *-eye/o-.

Thoughts on the early Indo-European subjunctive 1ps ending 2007

People don't talk much at all about the ending in -(a)χ but I've noticed that it forms either a type of deverbal noun/adjective derivative that conveys the meaning of "that which is X-ed" (where X represents the verb root), or a denominal noun/adjective derivative meaning "that which pertains to or derives from X".

Etruscans, the status quo and the unpopularity of bold questioning 2007

It appears that people are able to interpret these sorts of novel denominal verbs through a simulation process that meshes the affordances of the objects involved with the syntactic constructions of the sentences in which they appear.

I Typoed a Whole Post for the Language Log Chris 2005

As in the examples, half of the pairs contained novel denominal verbs, and half contained normal verbs.

I Typoed a Whole Post for the Language Log Chris 2005

Well, I do, and so did Michael Kaschack and Arthur Glenberg, who actually went out and conducted a set of experiments on the understanding of novel denominal verbs1.

I Typoed a Whole Post for the Language Log Chris 2005