N and D nominalizations
This paper addresses deverbal nominals denoting events (Complex Event Nominals or AS-Ns, Grimshaw 1990 and Borer 1999, respectively), that have been argued to convey aspectual information. I focus on French –age and –ée nominals, which have been argued to encode grammatical (im)perfective Aspect (F...
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| description | This paper addresses deverbal nominals denoting events (Complex Event Nominals or AS-Ns, Grimshaw 1990 and Borer 1999, respectively), that have been argued to convey aspectual information. I focus on French –age and –ée nominals, which have been argued to encode grammatical (im)perfective Aspect (Ferret et al. 2010, Knittel 2011). The aim is to contribute to a general syntactic theory of nominalizations involving aspectual projections, and to investigate their interaction with other, in particular categorizing, layers of structure. The analysis distinguishes between n-nominalizations which involve derivational affixes introducing categorial information, and default D-nominalizations in which the Determiner embeds aspectual (im)perfective morphology. I demonstrate that outer Aspect (an inflectional layer selecting verbalized structure) is only expected in the latter type of nominalizations, and that in the other cases, a relevant analysis should derive effects on the aspectual calculus by entailments at the level of a Classifier projection, specified in terms of +/-bounded, +/-count. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9cf346c4af2749f2be98543c50cf30322022-12-22T00:58:03ZengEditura Universitatii din BucurestiBucharest Working Papers in Linguistics2069-92392069-92392019-01-01XXI15172N and D nominalizationsElena Soare0Université de Paris Lumières, Université deParis 8This paper addresses deverbal nominals denoting events (Complex Event Nominals or AS-Ns, Grimshaw 1990 and Borer 1999, respectively), that have been argued to convey aspectual information. I focus on French –age and –ée nominals, which have been argued to encode grammatical (im)perfective Aspect (Ferret et al. 2010, Knittel 2011). The aim is to contribute to a general syntactic theory of nominalizations involving aspectual projections, and to investigate their interaction with other, in particular categorizing, layers of structure. The analysis distinguishes between n-nominalizations which involve derivational affixes introducing categorial information, and default D-nominalizations in which the Determiner embeds aspectual (im)perfective morphology. I demonstrate that outer Aspect (an inflectional layer selecting verbalized structure) is only expected in the latter type of nominalizations, and that in the other cases, a relevant analysis should derive effects on the aspectual calculus by entailments at the level of a Classifier projection, specified in terms of +/-bounded, +/-count.https://bwpl.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2_BWPL_2019_1_Soare.pdfnominalizationsmixed projectionscategorizationaspectplurality |
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| title | N and D nominalizations |
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| topic | nominalizations mixed projections categorization aspect plurality |
| url | https://bwpl.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2_BWPL_2019_1_Soare.pdf |
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