Deverbal nominalizations without overt suffixation in French

Recent work on argument taking deverbal zero nouns in English has shown that they are more present language than was previously thought. In this paper the presence and productivity of zero-derived French is investigated. It to determine which can count as nouns, several decisions have be made. This concerns their gender (do both masculine feminine included research?), determination what counts an argument, criteria used if a noun noun, form category base may have. On basis adopted dictionary database research, corpus composed analyzed. The results show that, English, productive