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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823248403321

Titolo

Cross-linguistic investigations of nominalization patterns / / edited by Ileana Paul, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

90-272-7070-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Collana

Linguistik aktuell, , 0166-0829 ; ; volume 210

Altri autori (Persone)

PaulIleana

Disciplina

410.367

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Nominals

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

part 1. Verbal structure inside nominalizations -- part 2. The referent of nominalization -- part 3. The nature of the nominalizer.

Sommario/riassunto

Patterns of nominalization in Blackfoot are surveyed. It is demonstrated that two of these patterns behave like nouns while two others only partially behave like nouns. Degrees of nominality are analyzed within the assumption that there is a universal syntactic spine, a hierarchically organized set of categories, which are not intrinsically specified for nominality or verbality. They are category-neutral. Different nominalization patterns (and degrees of nominality) reduce to different ways of introducing the nominalizer: it may be introduced by a dedicated morphological marker (nominalization