Event Related Nominals
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into two categories, depending on whether they retain the event from their verbal base or not. The original observation is due to Chomsky (1970); see also Lees (1960), Marantz (1997), Borer (2003). For English -ation and -ing nominals (e.g., destruction, examination; forming, examining) and for zero-derived nominals (e.g., form, exam), this has led to distinguishing two classes of nominals: complex-event vs. result nominals (CENs/RNs– Grimshaw 1990) or Argument-Supporting nominals (AS-Ns, cf. (1)) vs. Referential nominals (R-Ns, cf. (2)–Borer 1999):
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