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FunctionalStructureinNominals:Nominalizationandergativity
byArtemisAlexiadou
Functional Structure
in Nominals
Nominalization and ergativity
Artemis Alexiadou
UniversityofPotsdam
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Table of contents
Acknowledgements ix
Chapter 1
Introduction
. Sometheoreticalandmethodologicalpreliminaries
. VerbsanddeverbalnominalsinEnglish
. Derivednominalsandgerunds
. Wordformationandthelexicon
. WordandcategoryformationinDM
. Anambiguityinthenominalsystem
. Processversusresultnominals:Grimshaw’sdiagnostics
. Theroleoftheeventargument
. TheVPanalysis
. Thefinestructureofprocessnominals:afirstencounter
. Nominalizationpatternsacrosslanguages
. Outline
Chapter 2
TheFunctionalArchitectureofNominalizations
. Introduction
. NPsaredominatedbyD
. AgrP,NumberPandGenderP
. OntheAvs.A¹statusofSpec,DP
. SomenotesontheGreekDP
. Greeknominalformation
. Generalremarks
. Nominalsderivedfromtransitivepredicates
. Nominalsderivedfromintransitivepredicates
. Nominalsderivedfromditransitivepredicates
. Nominalsderivedfrompsychologicalpredicates
. Theverbalpropertiesofprocessnominals
. DP-internaladverbs
. Morphologicalreflexes
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. Aspectualdistinctions
. Thestructuraldifferencesbetweenprocessandresultnominals
. Processnominalslacktense
. AbsenceofphenomenarelatedtoT:EPP,ECMandraising
. Evidencefornominaltense
. Ontheobligatorylicensingofargumentswithinprocessnominals
. Processesinmorphologicalstructure
. Conclusion
Chapter 3
IntransitivityinNominalization
. Eventnominalsareergativeconstructions
. Greekeventnominals
. EventnominalsinEnglishandotherGermaniclanguages
. EventnominalsinRomance
. Slaviceventnominals
. Semiticeventnominals
. Hungarianeventnominals
. Onthepropertiesofpassivenominals
. Background
. Affectednessandaspectualproperties
. Referentialadjectives
. Noprocessofpassivization
. Thestructureofprocessnominalsrevisited
. By-phrasesandmoreonthelackofexternalarguments
Chapter 4
VariationinFunctionalStructure
. Variationinthesetofverbalprojections
. Presencevs.absenceofC
. Presencevs.absenceofAspect
. Variationdependingonthetypeofv/Voice(transitivevs.
intransitive)
. Variationinthesetofnominalprojections
. Presencevs.absenceofnumber:licensingofadjectival
modification
. VariationdependingonthetypeofD
. Summary
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Chapter 5
NominalizationandErgativity
. TheCasepatternsinnominalizationandergativelanguages
. Unaccusativityinergativelanguages
. Ergativeasalexicalcase
. visdeficientinergativelanguages
. RemarksonCasewithinDPs
. Genitiveisastructuralcase
. Caseasamorphologicalproperty
. Locusofgenitive
. Agents,ergativityandtheperfect
. Background
. Thecrosslinguisticdistributionofthepossessiveagent
. Possessorsubjectsintheperfect
Auxiliaryselection
. HAVE-BEandtheperfect
. AuxiliaryselectionlanguagesandonlyHAVElanguages
. Conclusion
Chapter 6
Conclusions
References
Index
Acknowledgements
This book is based on my Habilitationsschrift ‘Post-doctoral thesis’ On the
Syntax of Nominalization and Possession: remarks on patterns of ergativity,
submitted to the Philosophical Faculty II of the University of Potsdam in
May1999.Itisconcernedwithaninvestigationofthephrasalarchitectureof
nominalizationsandtheirrelationshiptootherlinguisticphenomena.
Thebookdiffersfromthethesisbothinitsorganizationandinitscontent.
In particular, chapter 4 is to a great extent novel, and certain sections of the
thesisarenotincludedhereforclarityofexposition.
WhileworkingonthematerialinthebookIhavehadfruitfuldiscussions
withseveralpeoplewhoofferedhelpfulcomments,raisedinterestingquestions,
providedintriguingdata.ForallthisIwouldliketothankHagitBorer,Henry
Davis,UlrikeDemske,DavidEmbick,MiriamEngelhardt,MarthaMcGinnis,
Eric Haeberli, Liliane Haegeman, Heidi Harley, Norbert Hornstein, Sabine
Iatridou, Graham Katz, Winfried Lechner, Renate Musan, Rolf Noyer, David
Pesetsky,IreneRapp, TomRoeper,ArnimvonStechow,Wolfgang Sternefeld,
Friderikos Valetopoulos, and Heike Winhardt. Very special thanks go to Alec
Marantz,GisbertFanselow,MelitaStavrou,andElenaAnagnostopoulouwho
also provided detailed written comments. Thanks are also due to Gereon
MüllerandUrsulaKleinhenz.
Parts of the material included in this study were presented at the 29th
NELS conference held at the University of Delaware in October 1998, at the
workshop on adverbs and adjunction held at the University of Tromsoe in
April1999,atthe23rdGLOWColloquiuminVitoria-GasteizinSpaininApril
2000 and at various seminars at the Universities of Thessaloniki, Tübingen,
PennsylvaniaandPotsdam.Ithankalltheseaudiencesfortheircomments.
Many thanks to Werner Abraham and Kees Vaes for all their help and
guidancewiththemanuscript.TheDFGgrantAL554/1-1isherebygratefully
acknowledged.
Potsdam,Germany
ArtemisAlexiadou
September2000
Description:This work studies aspects of the internal structure of nominal/determiner phrases. Topics covered include verbs and deverbal nominals in English, derived nominals and gerunds, word formation and lexicon, and word and category formation in distributed morphology.
