On two types of deadjectival nominals in Serbo-Croatian

• SSN can only have the trope interpretation, and never the event reading. • I take the term trope in a slightly narrower sense than that of Moltman, the sense that Villalba (2009) calls a property, i.e. ‘a condition an object is in’, a type of predicates that are well paraphrased in English by the construction [being + adjective]. I keep the term trope, as the term property is loaded with other uses. • As for the notion of an event, I take it as a non-homogeneous predicate assigned a temporal interval, in the sense of Borer (2005). • When the same adjectives derives both a PSN and a SSN, only PSNs, and not their SSN counterparts, can denote events. Evidence follows. • PSNs can be modified by adverbials that select for quantized eventualities, while their SSN counterparts cannot.