Activity-denoting nominals: aspectual, syntactic and interpretative properties

• Autores: Sophie Heyd, Marie Laurence Knittel
• Localización: Linguisticae investigationes: Revue internationale de linguistique française et de linguistique générale, ISSN 0378-4169, Tome 32, Fascicule 1, 2009, págs. 124-148
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • This paper deals with nouns morphologically and/or semantically paired with verbs denoting activities. We show that (contra N. Flaux & D. Van de Velde 2000) such nouns are not to be divided in three subclasses. Based on their distribution and interpretation (particularly the well-established count/mass distinction), we suggest that they denote either activities or occurrences. We provide a comparison with simple (i.e. non deverbal) nouns exhibiting the same behaviour when occurring in light verb constructions