Functional structure in nominals
Subtitle: nominalization and ergativity
By: Artemis Alexiadou.
Series: Linguistik aktuell =; Linguistics today,; v. 42; Linguistik aktuell ;; Bd. 42.
Publisher: J. Benjamins
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Nominals.; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Ergative constructions.; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Word formation.; Functionalism  (Linguistics)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-227) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER 1; title: Introduction i; title: 1. Some theoretical and methodological preliminaries i; title: 1.1 Verbs and deverbal nominals in English i; title: 1.2 Derived nominals and gerunds 2; title: 1.3 Word formation and the lexicon 3; title: 1.4 Word and category formation in DM 6; title: 2. An ambiguity in the nominal system 9; title: 2.1 Process versus result nominals: Grimshaw's diagnostics lo; title: 2.2 The role of the event argument 12; title: 2.3 The VP analysis 14; title: 3. The fine structure of process nominals: a first encounter 16; title: 4. Nominalization patterns across languages 20; title: 5. Outline 21; title: CHAPTER 2; title: The Functional Architecture of Nominalizations 27; title: 1. Introduction 27; title: 1.1 NPs are dominated by D 27; title: 1.2 AgrP, NumberP and GenderP 29; title: 1.3 On the A vs. A' status of Spec,DP 30; title: 1.4 Some notes on the Greek DP 33; title: 2. Greek nominal formation 35; title: 2.1 General remarks 35; title: 2.2 Nominals derived from transitive predicates 38; title: 2.3 Nominals derived from intransitive predicates 40; title: 2.4 Nominals derived from ditransitive predicates 42; title: 2.5 Nominals derived from psychological predicates 45; title: 3. The verbal properties of process nominals 47; title: 3.1 DP-internal adverbs 47; title: 3.2 Morphological reflexes 50; title: 3.3 Aspectual distinctions 51; title: 3.4 The structural differences between process and result nominals 56; title: 4. Process nominals lack tense 59; title: 4.1 Absence of phenomena related to T: EPP, ECM and raising 59; title: 4.2 Evidence for nominal tense 63; title: 5. On the obligatory licensing of arguments within process nominals 66; title: 6. Processes in morphological structure 67; title: 7. Conclusion 69; title: CHAPTER 3; title: Intransitivity in Nominalization 77; title: 1. Event nominals are ergative constructions 78; title: 1.1 Greek event nominals 78; title: 1.2 Event nominals in English and other Germanic languages 80; title: 1.3 Event nominals in Romance 81; title: 1.4 Slavic event nominals 85; title: 1.5 Semitic event nominals 87; title: 1.6 Hungarian event nominals 89; title: 2. On the properties of passive nominals 9o; title: 2.1 Background 90; title: 2.2 Affectedness and aspectual properties 93; title: 2.3 Referential adjectives 103; title: 2.4 No process of passivization 107; title: 3. The structure of process nominals revisited in; title: 4. By-phrases and more on the lack of external arguments 115; title: CHAPTER 4; title: Variation in Functional Structure 127; title: i. Variation in the set of verbal projections 127; title: 1.1 Presence vs. absence of C 127; title: 1.2 Presence vs. absence of Aspect 128; title: 1.3 Variation depending on the type of v/Voice (transitive vs.; title: intransitive) 135; title: 2. Variation in the set of nominal projections 143; title: 2.1 Presence vs. absence of number: licensing of adjectival; title: modification 143; title: 2.2 Variation depending on the type of D 144; title: 3. Summary 157; title: CHAPTER 5; title: Nominalization and Ergativity 167; title: 1. The Case patterns in nominalization and ergative languages 167; title: 2. Unaccusativity in ergative languages 169; title: 2.1 Ergative as a lexical case 169; title: 2.2 v is deficient in ergative languages 171; title: 3. Remarks on Case within DPs 173; title: 3.1 Genitive is a structural case 173; title: 3.2 Case as a morphological property 175; title: 3.3 Locus of genitive 177; title: 4. Agents, ergativity and the perfect 179; title: 4.1 Background 182; title: 4.2 The crosslinguistic distribution of the possessive agent 185; title: 4.3 Possessor subjects in the perfect 188; title: 5 Auxiliary selection 192; title: 5.1 HAVE-BE and the perfect 192; title: 5.2 Auxiliary selection languages and only HAVE languages 194; title: 6. Conclusion 197; title: CHAPTER 6; title: Conclusions 211; title: References 215; title: Index 229.