On event-denoting deadjectival nominalizations

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20344179
AutoresMaría J Arche (0000-0002-3723-7840, University of Greenwich, autor de correspondencia), Andrés Fábregas (0000-0001-9907-5878, UiT The Arctic University of Norway), Antonio Fábregas (Department of Language and Culture , HSL-Fakultet, The Arctic University of Norway, University of Tromsø , Tromsø , Norway), Richard Marin (0000-0002-3692-6409, CNRS – Université de Lille, STL UMR 8163 – CNRS, Université de Lille, Domaine du Pont-de-bois , Villeneuve d’Ascq Cedex , France), Rafael Marín
Año2021
Volumen38
Número2
Páginas191-231
Fecha de publicación2021-06-25
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Linguistic Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0167-6318 • E-ISSN: 1613-3676
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/tlr-2021-2063
OpenAlexW3154817108
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas30

This paper offers a principled account for the nominalizations of dispositional evaluative adjectives. On the descriptive side, the paper shows that (i) in addition to the largely studied deverbal nominalizations, certain deadjectival nominalizations can also refer to events; (ii) the types of adjectives that enable eventive denotation are of a specific sort, namely, those deriving from Dispositional Evaluative Adjectives (e.g., imprudent ). At the theoretical level, this paper argues that (i) dispositional deadjectival nominalizations introduce an event description not in a head but in a specifier position, as their subject of predication; (ii) in order for a word to have functional structure of the sort associated to verbs, an event description is not enough: functional projections must form a head-sequence with the event-descriptive heads; without this configuration, the merge of a fully-fledged verbal functional structure is blocked, which explains the limitations regarding temporal modification; (iii) The event present in the dispositional deadjectival nominalizations is a partial event description consisting of a head referring to the Process subevent

Information retrieval · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Nominalization · Noun · Noun phrase · Specifier · Computer Science · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation