We investigate the distribution of verbal and nominal layers in Romance and Germanic nominalizations. Specifically, we examine pairs of ‘verbal’ vs. ‘nominal’ nominalizations in two Romance (Spanish & Romanian) and two Germanic (English & German) languages. Our study proposes a large spectrum of nominal and verbal properties. While these are differently instantiated among languages, the variation we find cannot be attributed to a Germanic vs. Romance parameter; instead, we find micro-variation constrained by the compatibility between the general building blocks of verbal and nominal categories. Besides the vP-layers responsible for argument structure and Aktionsart and the DP-layer responsible for the nominal external syntax, we make a case for further functional verbal and nominal layers in nominalizations: Asp(ect)P, Class(ifier)P, and Num(ber)P. These projections are in complementary distribution in some languages and co-occur in others.
2024. Temporal Modification of Event Kinds. In Selected Reflections in Language, Logic, and Information [Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 14354], ► pp. 136 ff.
Li, Wenxi, Yutong Zhang, Guy Emerson & Weiwei Sun
2024. UG-schematic Annotation for Event Nominals: A Case Study in Mandarin
Chinese. Computational Linguistics 50:2 ► pp. 535 ff.
Alexiadou, Artemis
2023. Agent Nominalizations. In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Morphology, ► pp. 1 ff.
Solano-Escobar, Laura & Alejandro Cuza
2023. Infinitive vs. Gerund Use and Interpretation in Heritage Spanish. Languages 8:3 ► pp. 214 ff.
Cano Cambronero, María de los Ángeles & Matías Jaque Hidalgo
2021. Codificación sintáctica del aspecto en la derivación deverbal: el caso de los adjetivos en –nte y los nombres en –ncia. Verba: Anuario Galego de Filoloxía 48
Dékány, Éva
2021. Possessive DPs. In The Hungarian Nominal Functional Sequence [Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 100], ► pp. 159 ff.
2020. “Agent Exclusivity” Effects in Hebrew Nominalizations. In Perspectives on Causation [Jerusalem Studies in Philosophy and History of Science, ], ► pp. 319 ff.
2013. The realization of external arguments in nominalizations. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 16:2-3 ► pp. 73 ff.
Schäfer, Florian
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