Full Description
This volume explores the progress of cross-linguistic research into the structure of complex nominals since the publication of Chomsky's 'Remarks on Nominalization' in 1970. In the last 50 years of research into the division of labour between the mental lexicon and syntax, the specific properties of nominalized structures have remained a particularly central question. The chapters in this volume take stock of developments in this area and offer new perspectives on a range of issues, including the representation of morphological complexity in the syntax, the correlation of nominal affixes with different types of nominalizations, and the modelling of non-compositional meaning within syntactic approaches to word formation. Crucially, the contributors base their analyses on data from typologically diverse languages, such as Archi, Greek, Hiaki, Icelandic, Mebengokre, Turkish, and Udmurt, and explore the question of whether, cross-linguistically, nominalizations have a uniform core to their structure that can be syntactically described.
Contents
1: Artemis Alexiadou and Hagit Borer: Introduction
2: Noam Chomsky: Remarks on Nominalization: Background and motivation
3: Peter Ackema and Ad Neeleman: Unifying nominal and verbal syntax: Agreement and feature realization
4: Odelia Ahdout and Itamar Kastner: Bases, transformations, and competition in Hebrew niXYaZ
5: Artemis Alexiadou: D vs n nominalizations within and across languages
6: Hagit Borer: Nominalizing verbal passive: PROs and cons
7: Jessica Coon and Justin Royer: Nominalization and selection in two Mayan languages
8: Éva Dékány and Ekaterina Georgieva: Three ways of unifying participles and nominalizations: The case of Udmurt
9: Heidi Harley: Relative nominals and event nominals in Hiaki
10: Gianina Iordăchioaia: Categorization and nominalization in zero nominals
11: Keir Moulton: Remarks on propositional nominalization
12: Tom Roeper: Where are thematic roles? Building the micro-syntax of implicit arguments in nominalization
13: Isabelle Roy and Elena Soare: Agent and other function nominals in a neo-constructionist approach to nominalizations
14: Bożena Rozwadowska: Polish psych nominals revisited
15: Andrés Pablo Salanova and Adam J.R. Tallman: Nominalizations, case domains, and restructuring in two Amazonian languages
16: Jim Wood: Prepositional prefixing and allosemy in nominalizations
