Nominalizations

• Autores: Judith Meinschaefer
• Localización: Manual of Grammatical Interfaces in Romance / coord. por Susann Fischer, Christoph Gabriel, 2016, ISBN 9783110311785, págs. 391-417
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Nominalizations are complex words, which, under a classic view of the architecture of the language faculty, belong to the domain of word structure, or morphology. In the simplest cases, nouns can be derived from one-place predicates, like adjectives and intransitive verbs. In more complex cases, they derive from complex verbs and retain much of the syntactic and semantic complexity of their bases. Two fundamental questions have been at the core of the study of nominalization: First, which aspects of the event-structural and of the argument-structural complexity seen in the verbal domain are visible in the nominal domain, and which aspects are not? Second, how does the morphological complexity of nominalizations relate to their eventand argument-structural complexity? With a focus on these two questions, the present article aims at presenting a state-of-the-art perspective on nominalization and its implications for the interfaces between morphology, syntax, and semantics, with specific reference to Romance languages.