The aim of this paper is twofold: to establish the structure deverbal nominals in -nie and -cie which lack argument function as Simple Event Result nominals, specify factors conditioning their emergence. proposed analysis framed Borer’s exo-skeletal model supplemented by elements nanosyntactic approach. Polish data are puzzling since R-nominals -nie/-cie show morphological evidence verbalising ...

ilona kickbusch’s thought provoking editorial is criticized in this commentary, partly because she fails to refer to previous critical work on the global conditions and policies that sustain inequality, poverty, poor health and damage to the biosphere and, as a result, she misreads global power and elides consideration of the fundamental historical structures of political and material power tha...