The Semantics of Nominalizations across Languages and Frameworks / / ed. by Artemis Alexiadou, Monika Rathert.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Alexiadou, Artemis,; Barker, Chris,; Brandtner, Regine,; Heusinger, Klaus,; Heyvaert, Liesbet,; Kamp, Hans,; Laczkó, Tibor,; Martin, Fabienne,; Melloni, Chiara,; Rathert, Monika,; Roßdeutscher, Antje,; Uth, Melanie,
• HerausgeberIn: Alexiadou, Artemis,; Rathert, Monika,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Interface Explorations [IE] , 22
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (250 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Contributors --; Introduction --; Nominals don’t provide criteria of identity --; Nominalization in context – conflicting readings and predicate transfer --; A cognitive-functional perspective on deverbal nominalization in English. Descriptive findings and theoretical ramifications --; A new account of possessors and event nominals in Hungarian --; The semantics of eventive suffixes in French --; Action nominals inside: lexical-semantic issues --; Syntactic and semantic constraints on the formation and interpretation of -ung-nouns --; The rivalry of French -ment and -age from a diachronic perspective --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110226546; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961; 9783110233544; 9783110233551; 9783110233568; 9783110233605
• ISSN: 1861-4167
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110226546
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Artemis Alexiadou, Monika Rathert.

The volume explores the semantics of nominalizations from different theoretical points of view: formal and lexical semantics, cognitive-functional grammar, lexical-functional grammar, discourse representation theory. Data from a variety of languages are taken into account, including Hungarian, Italian, French, German and English. The papers discuss the semantics of distinct readings of nominalizations and meaning differences observed between competing affixes.