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Deriving color adjectival nominalizations [PDF]
Linguística, 2013 In this paper I examine two types of nominalizations related to color adjectives in Greek, a suffixed one and a neutral one, which I will compare to their English and Dutch (and German) counterparts.
Artemis Alexiadou
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Word-level Nominalization in Choctaw
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1994 Choctaw has a spare derivational morphology. This work discusses the limits of conversion, or zero-derivation, as a nominalization process, and shows that neither conversion nor a characteristic NP stress pattern are word formation rules.
Haag, Marcia
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How to become an adjective when you're not strong (enough)?
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2020 This article attempts to put a new spin on (the development of) weakly inflected adjectives, with a partic- ular focus on North Germanic, by recycling some traditional ideas.
Alexander Pfaff
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Naming Strategies and Ethnobiological Nomenclature in Kakataibo (Panoan, Peru)
Liames, 2018 The present paper describes and illustrates the main naming strategies attested in a lexical database of 1233 Kakataibo names of plant and animals. Seven naming strategies are proposed for Kakataibo ethnobiological nomenclature: coining, morphological ...
Roberto Zariquiey
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The interface of lexical semantics and conceptual structure deverbal and denominal nominalizations [PDF]
, 2013 Nominalizations can refer to events, instances of events or participants in an event. The particular reference is determined by the lexical semantics of the base and the suffix, and by the conceptual structure of the base. The comparison between deverbal
Heusinger, Klaus von
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Nominalization in Q'anjob'al (Maya)
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2009 Q’anjob’al typically makes a rigid distinction between transitive and intransitive verb inflections. Transitive verbs cross-reference their subjects with an ergative prefix while intransitive verbs cross-reference their subjects with an absolutive prefix.
Mateo, Pedro
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PP licensing in nominalizations [PDF]
, 2008 In this paper we compare the distribution of PPs introducing external arguments in nominalizations with PPs introducing external arguments in the verbal domain.
Alexiadou, Artemis +2 more
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Competing motivations in the diachronic nominalization of English gerunds
Diachronica, 2018 The present study is an in-depth, corpus-based analysis of the rise and institutionalization of the indefinite nominal gerund in Late Modern English, considering the observed developments in light of their interactions with functionally related ...
Lauren Fonteyn, Charlotte Maekelberghe
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Assisted Nominalization for Academic English Writing
, 2018 Nominalization is a common linguistic feature in academic writing. By expressing actions or events (verbs) as concepts or things (nouns), nominalization produces more abstract and formal text, and conveys a more objective tone.
J. Lee +3 more
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Argument structure in nominalizations : the case of the light verb construction in German [PDF]
, 2010 The predicate associated with the verb fails to express its full argument structure, while the predicate associated with the nominalization preserves its original argument ...
Piñango, Maria Mercedes +1 more
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