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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. The contributors take stock of developments in this area and offer new perspectives based on data from a wide range of typologically diverse languages.
List of 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 Iord¿chioaia: 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: Böena 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
About the author
Artemis Alexiadou is Professor of English Linguistics at Humboldt University of Berlin and Vice Director of the Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS) in Berlin. Her work on the syntax and morphology of noun phrases and argument alternations has been published in multiple international journals, and she is the co-editor of the OUP volumes The Syntax of Roots and the Roots of Syntax (with Hagit Borer and Florian Schäfer; 2014) and External Arguments in Transitivity Alternations (with Elena Anagnostopoulou and Florian Schäfer; 2015). In 2014 she was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize by the German Research Foundation for excellence in research.
Hagit Borer is a Professor of Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London. Her research involves the division of labour between the lexicon and syntax, and touches on morphosyntax as well as the syntax-semantics interface. She is the author of the three-volume work Structuring Sense: Volume 1, In Name Only (OUP 2005) focuses on nominal structure; Volume 2, The Normal Course of Events (OUP 2005) explores event structure; and Volume 3, Taking Form (OUP 2013) looks at morphosyntax and word formation. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2017.
Summary
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. The contributors take stock of developments in this area and offer new perspectives based on data from a wide range of typologically diverse languages.
