The Syntax of Nominalizations across Languages and Frameworks

325 Pages·2010·4.82 MB·English

by  Artemis Alexiadou

The Syntax of Nominalizations across Languages and Frameworks
Interface Explorations 23
Editors
Artemis Alexiadou
T. Alan Hall
De Gruyter Mouton
The Syntax of Nominalizations
across Languages and Frameworks
edited by
Artemis Alexiadou
Monika Rathert
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Preface

The chapters in this volume grew out of papers presented at the workshop
“Nominalizations across Languages” that we organized at Stuttgart Univer-
sity, Germany, in December 2007. It was a lively and engaging workshop,
with many good papers – in fact too many for a single volume. We decided
to split the papers in two volumes, one focusing on the syntax of nominali-
zations (the current volume, IE 23), the other one focusing on the semantics
of nominalizations (IE 22). The split reflects nicely the kinds of contribu-
tions we received, although we want to stress that there are, of course,
many overlapping and unifying questions.
The current volume IE 23 explores the syntax of nominalizations, focus-
ing on deverbal and deadjectival nominalizations, but also discussing the
syntax of genitives and the syntax of distinct readings of nominalizations.
The volume investigates the morphology-syntax interface as well as the se-
mantics-syntax interface in the domain of nominalizations. The theoretical
frameworks include distributed morphology, and minimalist syntax. Data
from a variety of languages are taken into consideration, e.g. Hebrew, Bul-
garian, Serbian, French, Spanish, German and English.
It was an enormous pleasure for both of us to prepare the volumes. We
would like to thank our authors for their contributions, we have benefited
enormously from reading their chapters. Many thanks also to our reviewers
for their insightful and inspiring comments.
Many thanks also to the DFG for the financial support that made this
event possible.
Finally, we would like to thank Anke Beck, Julie Miess and Ursula Klein-
henz at Mouton de Gruyter for their valuable editorial assistance and guid-
ance. Thanks also to Frank Benno Junghanns for proofreading and taking
care of the formatting of the manuscripts.

Artemis Alexiadou and Monika Rathert
Stuttgart/Wuppertal, May 2010

Contents

Preface............................................................... v
Contributors.......................................................... ix

Introduction.......................................................... 1
Artemis Alexiadou and Monika Rathert

On the syntax of episodic vs. dispositional -er nominals................ 9
Artemis Alexiadou and Florian Schäfer

On the morphological make-up of nominalizations in Serbian........... 39
Monika Bašić

A syntactic account of affix rivalry in Spanish nominalizations ......... 67
Antonio Fábregas

The syntax of deverbal nominals in Bulgarian.......................... 93
Angelina Markova

Deadjectival nominalizations and the structure of the adjective......... 129
Isabelle Roy

Event-structure constraints on nominalization......................... 159
Ivy Sichel

Aspect and argument structure of deverbal nominalizations:
A split vP analysis................................................... 199
Petra Sleeman and Ana Maria Brito

Post-nominal genitives and prepositional phrases in German:
A uniform analysis .................................................. 219
Torgrim Solstad

Author index ....................................................... 253
Subject index....................................................... 256

Contributors

Artemis Alexiadou is Professor of Theoretical and English Linguistics at
the Universität Stuttgart. Her research interests lie in theoretical and com-
parative syntax, with special focus on the interfaces between syntax and
morphology and syntax and the lexicon. She is currently working on nomi-
nal structure and verbal alternations. She has published work in Linguistic
Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, and Studia Linguistica
among others.

Monika Bašić is a PhD student at the Center for Advanced Study in Theo-
retical Linguistics (CASTL), University of Tromsø. She is interested in
various aspects of syntactic theory, particularly in constraints on syntactic
movement operations. She has published and presented work on topics in-
cluding left branch extractions, the structure of prepositional phrases, verbal
morphology in Slavic, and nominalizations. Her main focus is on Slavic
language family.

Ana Maria Brito is a Full Professor at the Faculdade de Letras da Univer-
sidade do Porto, Portugal. PhD in Portuguese Linguistics in 1988, with a
dissertation on the syntax of relative clauses. She is one of the authors of the
Gramática da Língua Portuguesa (Caminho, Lisboa, 2003), and author of
circa 60 papers on different aspects of Portuguese syntax in a comparative
perspective, mainly on nominal phrases, possessives, deverbal nominaliza-
tions, relative clauses, canonical comparatives.

Antonio Fábregas is Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the In-
stitutt for Språkvitenskap of the University of Tromsø. His research has fo-
cused in the analysis of morphology and morphological processes from a
syntactic perspective, as well as in semantics and pragmatics. He has collab-
orated in the New Grammar of Spanish (2009) from the Spanish Royal Acad-
emy of Language and has published papers on relational adjectives, degree
achievements, exocentric compounds and prefixation, among other topics.

Angelina Markova is a PhD student at the Universitat Autònoma de Barce-
lona, a member of the Center for Theoretical Linguistics there (Centre de
Lingüística Teòrica) and a non-official affiliated researcher for the European