The Syntax of Nominalizations Across Languages and Frameworks

Download or read book The Syntax of Nominalizations Across Languages and Frameworks written by Artemis Alexiadou and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume explores the syntax of nominalizations, focusing 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 semantics-syntax interface in the domain of nominalizations. The theoretical frameworks include distributed morphology and minimalist syntax. Data from a variety of languages, such as Hebrew, Bulgarian, Serbian, French, Spanish, German and English, are taken into consideration. --Book Jacket.