Are French –ité Suffixed Nouns Property Nouns? An Analysis of /alite/ and /aʁite/ending Nouns

The present paper is about French -ité nouns formation. More specifically, we are dealing with their interpretations. A deadjectival noun is a complex noun morphologically coined on an adjectival base. French deadjectival nouns formation (noted A > N) includes at least eight suffixes, as reported in Table 1. Actually, -ité is the most represented suffix in the biggest multivolume French dictionary of general language, i.e. the Trésor de la Langue Française (henceforth TLF). To give an example, the TLF includes 715 deadjectival nouns ending in -ité (noted AitéN) against 237 deadjectival nouns ending in -erie and only 64 nouns in -eur, 54 nouns in -itude or 40 nouns in -esse.