Web vs dictionaries. French nominalizations in -age and in -ment

This article addresses French suffixations in -age and -ment that form nominalizations. Our aim is to test the hypotheses about these two rules, based on occurrences collected from the Web and not found in contemporary dictionaries. Through a wide-scale study, we show that the differences between the two rules are not as obvious as expected, and that this data pleads for a perspective in which both suffixes follow a single word formation rule.