Icelandic Nominalizations and Allosemy

This book provides a detailed description of Icelandic nominalizations, processes through which verbs are turned into nouns. Jim Wood shows that the analysis of these constructions has broad implications for our understanding of argument structure and the syntax-semantics interface.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Icelandic nominalizations


• 3: Phrasal layering vs. complex heads


• 4: Prepositions and prefixes


• 5: Complex Event Nominals and inheritance


• 6: Simple Event Nominals, Referring Nominals, and allosemy


• 7: Conclusion


• References


• Index

About the author

Jim Wood is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Yale University and Associate Editor of the Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics. His primary research interests lie in syntax and its interfaces with morphology and semantics. He is the author of Icelandic Morphosyntax and Argument Structure (Springer, 2015), and his research has been published in journals such as Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, Linguistic Inquiry, Syntax, Glossa, and Linguistic Variation. Since 2012, he has been a leading member of the Yale Grammatical Diversity Project, investigating micro-syntactic variation in North American English, and was a co-principal investigator on the National Science Foundation grant funding its work.

Summary

This book provides a detailed description of Icelandic nominalizations, processes through which verbs are turned into nouns. Jim Wood shows that the analysis of these constructions has broad implications for our understanding of argument structure and the syntax-semantics interface.

Product details

• Authors: Wood , Dr Jim (Associate Professor of Linguistics Wood, Jim Wood, Jim (Associate Professor of Linguistics Wood, Wood Jim
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.2023
• EAN: 9780198865155
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886515-5
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Icelandic, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc