Lexical Borrowing Targets Spans

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ID5900605
AuthorsDeniz Tat (0000-0001-8199-1974, Leiden University, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume7
Issue4
Pages289
Publication date2022-11-11
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguages (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/languages7040289
OpenAlexW4308936091
LanguageEN
References cited27

In this study, I revisit the claim that nominals denoting complex events must derive from discernible verbal stems and must be headed by an overt nominalizer. I show that Turkish has a set of nominals, crucially of foreign origin, which provides counter-evidence to both claims. From the perspective of Turkish grammar, they are morphologically noncompositional, manifesting neither a detectable verbal basis nor an overt nominalizer although they are categorically complex event nominals. Since (zero-)derived nominals of Turkic origin do not allow argument structure, the puzzling makeup of underived complex event nominals in question boils down to their loan word nature. I show that their behavior is different from both derived nominals as well as gerundive nominals in important ways. I claim that they are defective nominalizations lacking an nP representation. After reviewing previous accounts of these nominals, I consider three syntactic approaches to word derivation, which differ in their theoretical assumptions only in granularity, and conclude that the Spanning approach of Bye and Svenonius provides us with a conceptually superior account

Argument (complex analysis · Event (particle physics · Grammar · Linguistics · Nominalization · Noun · Representation (politics · Set (abstract data type · Syntax · Turkish · Computer Science · Linguistics and Cultural Studies · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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