Nominalizations
Title | Nominalizations PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2002-09-11 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1134928440 |
Based on extensive and diverse material from 70 languages, and covering a range of previously undiscussed problems, this book provides a thorough analysis of how nominalization types interact with other structural features. It focuses on action nominal constructions, and in particular, the comparison of their syntactic structure with that of finite clauses and of other noun phrases, a problem which has claimed much attention in current syntactic theories. Supported by rich empirical material and clearly illustrated with examples from all the sample languages, the book provides a detailed and consistent basis for constructing a typology of derived constructions and for presenting cross-linguistic comparisons.
The Semantics of Nominalizations across Languages and Frameworks
Title | The Semantics of Nominalizations across Languages and Frameworks PDF eBook |
Author | Monika Rathert |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 263 |
Release | 2010-08-31 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110226545 |
The volume explores the semantics of nominalizations from different theoretical points of view: formal and lexical semantics, cognitive-functional grammar, lexical-functional grammar, discourse representation theory. Data from a variety of languages are taken into account, including Hungarian, Italian, French, German and English. The papers discuss the semantics of distinct readings of nominalizations and meaning differences observed between competing affixes.
The Syntax of Nominalizations across Languages and Frameworks
Title | The Syntax of Nominalizations across Languages and Frameworks PDF eBook |
Author | Artemis Alexiadou |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2010-09-22 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110245876 |
The volume explores the syntax of nominalizations, focusing on deverbal and deadjectival nominalizations, but also discussing the syntax of genitives and the syntax of distinct readings of nominalizations. The volume investigates the morpholgy-syntax interface as well as the semantics-syntax interface in the domain of nominalizations. The theoretical frameworks include distributed morphology, and minimalist syntax. Data from a variety of languages are taken into consideration, e.g. Hebrew, Bulgarian, Serbian, French, Spanish, German and English.
Noun Phrases and Nominalization in Basque
Title | Noun Phrases and Nominalization in Basque PDF eBook |
Author | Urtzi Etxeberria |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 475 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027255709 |
This collective volume on nominal expressions in Basque, a language isolate with no known relatives, comprises original papers on the syntactic structure and the interpretation of both Noun Phrases and nominalization constructions a traditionally neglected aspect of Basque linguistics. The minute attention to properties and paradigms previously overlooked, and the analyses of them in the light of recent advances in syntactic theory make this book a valuable tool for syntacticians, semanticists and morphologists. This work fills a gap in the theoretical study of Basque, and the richness of data presented makes it interesting for any researcher from whatever particular theoretical persuasion. This volume is especially useful for researchers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students of comparative grammar, typology, and theoretical linguistics.
Icelandic Nominalizations and Allosemy
Title | Icelandic Nominalizations and Allosemy PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Wood |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2023-08-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0192634445 |
This book brings a basic yet detailed description of Icelandic nominalizations to bear on the general theoretical and architectural issues that nominalizations have raised since the earliest work in generative syntax. While nominalization has long been central to theories of argument structure, and Icelandic has been an important language for the study of argument structure and syntax, Icelandic has not been brought into the general body of theoretical work on nominalization. In this work, Jim Wood shows that Icelandic-specific issues in the analysis of derived nominals have broad implications that go beyond the study of that one language. In particular, Icelandic provides special evidence that Complex Event Nominals (CENs), which seem to inherit their argument structure from the underlying verbs, can be formed without nominalizing a full verb phrase. This conclusion is at odds with prominent theories of nominalization that claim that CENs have the properties that they have precisely because they involve the nominalization of full verb phrases. The book develops a theory of allosemy within the framework of Distributed Morphology, showing how one single syntactic structure can get distinct semantic interpretations corresponding to the range of readings that are available to derived nominals. The resulting proposal demonstrates how the study of Icelandic nominalizations can both further our understanding of argument structure and shed new light on the syntax-semantics interface.
Nominalizations, Double Genitives and Possessives
Title | Nominalizations, Double Genitives and Possessives PDF eBook |
Author | Anja Šarić |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 2018-10-22 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 3110620340 |
The goal of this work is twofold. First, it aims to account for double genitive constructions in Serbian. Second, it aims to re-evaluate the DP hypothesis in light of their existence in Serbian. Based on evidence from the categorial status of possessives, argumenthood in the nominal domain, the morphosyntactic structure of nominalizations, and the assignment of the genitive case, it is argued that DP projection must be assumed in Serbian.
On Conjunctive Nominalizations in English
Title | On Conjunctive Nominalizations in English PDF eBook |
Author | Robert A. Jenkins |
Publisher | |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 1962 |
Genre | English language |
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