The earliest generative work derived all nominalizations syntactically (Chomsky 1955-6, Lees 1960). Chomsky (1970) then argued that only -ing gerunds are derived syntactically, while all other types of event nominals, such as refutation, acceptance, refusal, are derived morphologically in the lexicon from bases that are unspecified between nouns and verbs. The suffix -ing was shown to serve bot...

-ung nominalizations of verbs of saying in German can be interpreted as events or propositions. There are context partners of such nominals which disambiguate the reading or suggest preferences. We consider a specific ambiguous constellation which is very frequent in German, where the nominal is the internal argument of a PP with nach. We detail the semantic representations of corresponding sen...

The aim of this paper is to describe the available strategies for coding purpose relations in Mbya, focusing on their semantico-pragmatic distribution. According Dooley, Mbya Guarani presents two main different involved relations: aguã nominalizations and vy-dependent clauses, among latter a motion-cum-purpose (MCP) construction subtype included. These differ regard semantic class verb, referen...

While metaphor has long been shown to pervade scientific discourse and terminology, little is known about how it affects the human comprehension of abstract concepts underpins further development related ideas. In this article we focus on seven established terms in astrophysics cosmology, which have also become staples popular science, namely “big bang”, “wormhole”, “black hole”, “spaghettifica...

Natural language, as is well known, seems to involve a rather rich ontology. It easily allows for reference to universals (with nominalizations such as honesty) und thus seems to involve a realist ontology, with properties acting as objects. It also allows reference to collections of any sort (with plurals and conjunctive NPs) und thus seems to involve unrestricted composition. In this paper, I...

Рассматриваются отглагольные имена с показателями номинализации -кӣт, -дяк, -вун. Описывается их значение и употребление. Материалом послужил корпус устных рассказов на эвенкийском языке, а также газетные переводные тексты. В центре внимания механизм появления у таких имен атрибутивного употребления. Номинализации -дяк образуют существительные со значением места или действия, -вун – результата ...

Philosophers have long debated about two ways of conceiving of universals: as Platonic universals and as Aristotelian universals. Roughly, Aristotelian universals are inherent in the particulars that instantiate them; they can be multiply located (located just where the instances are located), and they exist only if they have at least one instance. Platonic universals, by contrast, are truly ab...

Nominalization is a highly productive phenomena in most languages. The process of nominalization ejects a verb f rom its syntactic role into a nominal position. The original verb is often replaced by a semantically emptied support verb (e.g., make a proposal). The choice of a support verb for a given nominalization is unpredictable, causing a problem for language learners as well as for natural...

An important trend in recent works on lexical semantics has been the development of learning methods capable of extracting semantic information from text corpora. The majority of these methods are based on the distributional hypothesis of meaning and acquire semantic information by identifying distributional patterns in texts. In this article, we present a distributional analysis method for ext...