Nominalization: 50 Years on from Chomsky's Remarks
Artemis Alexiadou and Hagit Borer
Abstract
Chomsky’s Remarks on Nominalization (RoN), published in 1970, has had an immense impact on syntax, and far reaching ramifications for phonology, semantics, and morphology. Among other major factors, RoN[R1] propelled the emergence of theoretical morphology as a distinct subfield within generative grammar. The original agenda set up by RoN, as augmented by supplemental work on argument structure, on the typology of derived nominals, and on the role of morphological complexity, continue to inform major contemporary theoretical approaches to morphosyntax in general, and to the study of derived no ... More
Chomsky’s Remarks on Nominalization (RoN), published in 1970, has had an immense impact on syntax, and far reaching ramifications for phonology, semantics, and morphology. Among other major factors, RoN[R1] propelled the emergence of theoretical morphology as a distinct subfield within generative grammar. The original agenda set up by RoN, as augmented by supplemental work on argument structure, on the typology of derived nominals, and on the role of morphological complexity, continue to inform major contemporary theoretical approaches to morphosyntax in general, and to the study of derived nominals, in particular. This volume brings together contributions which address these issues from different perspectives and which, importantly, focus on a broad range of typologically diverse languages (Archi, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hiaki, Icelandic, Japanese, Jingpo, Korean, Mayan, Mẽbengokre, Navajo, Polish, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish, Udmurt). The volume also contains an introduction by the editors as well as a short contribution by Noam Chomsky.<153>
Keywords:
derived nominals,
Remarks on Nominalization,
complex event nominals,
argument structure nominals,
gerunds,
zero derived nominals,
allosemy,
layering,
passive,
clausal nominalizations
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2020 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198865544 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2021 |
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198865544.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Artemis Alexiadou, editor
Professor of English Linguistics, Humboldt University Berlin
Hagit Borer, editor
Professor of Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London
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