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
• प्रकाशन का वर्ष : 2010
• भाषा: English
• श्रृंखला: Interface Explorations [IE] , 22
• भौतिक वर्णन: 1 online resource (250 p.)

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, Itali...

Table of Contents

• 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