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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780740003321

Titolo

The semantics of nominalizations across languages and frameworks [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Monika Rathert, Artemis Alexiadou

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2010

ISBN

1-282-78407-2

9786612784071

3-11-022654-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Collana

Interface explorations ; ; 22

Classificazione

ET 455

Altri autori (Persone)

RathertMonika <1972->

AlexiadouArtemis

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Semantics

Grammar, Comparative and general - Nominals

Grammar, Comparative and general - Noun

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Nominals don't provide criteria of identity -- Nominalization in context - conflicting readings and predicate transfer -- A cognitive-functional perspective on deverbal nominalization in English. Descriptive findings and theoretical ramifications -- A new account of possessors and event nominals in Hungarian -- The semantics of eventive suffixes in French -- Action nominals inside: lexical-semantic issues -- Syntactic and semantic constraints on the formation and interpretation of -ung-nouns -- The rivalry of French -ment and -age from a diachronic perspective -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

The volume explores the semantics of nominalizations from different theoretical points of view: formal and lexical semantics, cognitive-functional grammar, lexical-functional grammar, discourse representation theory. Data from a variety of languages are taken into account, including Hungarian, Italian, French, German and English. The papers discuss the semantics of distinct readings of nominalizations and meaning differences observed between competing affixes.