Cross-linguistic Investigations of Nominalization Patterns

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Ileana Paul | University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario

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The chapters in this volume address current topics in the morphology, syntax, and semantics of nominalizations, drawing on a range of typologically and geographically diverse languages. Nominalizations represent a long-standing puzzle to linguists: How is a noun, such as destruction, related to the verb destroy? The semantic parallel between the deverbal nominalization and its related verb suggests that there is a close connection between the two. This volume contributes to the ongoing debates on how to capture this connection and how to account for the apparent mixed categorical status of nominalizations. This volume is essential for students and researchers interested in the morphology-syntax and syntax-semantics interfaces.

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 210] 2014. xiii, 217 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.210

Table of Contents

Cross-linguistic investigations of nominalization patterns

Ileana Paul | pp. vii–xiv

Part 1. Verbal structure inside nominalizations

Nominalizations in Ojibwe

Eric Mathieu | pp. 3–24

Nominalizing Inner Aspect: Evidence from Blackfoot

Elizabeth Ritter | pp. 25–50

Nominalization instead of modification

Andrea Wilhelm | pp. 51–82

Part 2. The referent of nominalization

Assigning reference in clausal nominalizations

Heather Bliss | pp. 85–118

Simple event nominalizations: Roots and their interpretation

Keir Moulton | pp. 119–144

Malagasy fact- and claim-type nominals: An exploration

Lisa deMena Travis, Jeannot-Fils Ranaivoson and Jean Lewis Botouhely | pp. 145–166

Part The nature of the nominalizer

Derivation by gender in Lithuanian

Solveiga Armoskaite | pp. 169–188

Patterns of nominalization in Blackfoot

Martina Wiltschko | pp. 189–214

Index | pp. 215–218

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