Nominalizations in German Support Verb Constructions Angelika Storrer TU Dortmund ___________________________________________________________________________ Support verb constructions (SVC), such as to take a risk or to set into motion, are composed of a support verb (SV, e.g. take, set) and a predicative noun (PredN, e.g. risk, motion), which is – in most cases – a nominalization of a verb or...

Nominalization is a linguistic phenomenon in which events usually described in terms of clauses are expressed in the form of noun phrases. Extracting event structures is an important task in text mining applications. To achieve this goal, clauses are parsed and the argument structure of main verbs are extracted from the parsed results. This kind of preprocessing has been commonly done in the pa...

One of the most important questions of philosophy of mathematics is the ontological status of mathematical entities. In the late 70s, Quine and Putnam suggested an argument for the existence of mathematical entities. The argument is based on the idea that mathematics is not only applicable but in fact indispensable to empirical sciences; and if so, then mathematical entities are as indispensabl...

In Korean, the Internally Headed Relative Clause Construction (IHRC), illustrated in (1), the Direct Perception Construction (DPC), illustrated in (2), and the factive Propositional Attitude Construction (PAC), illustrated in (3), appear to have an identical syntactic structure: the complements of the verbs consist of clausal material and the grammatical element kes (Kim 1984, Jhang 1994, Chung...

This paper argues that the basic problems of nominalisation are those of set theory. We shall therefore overview the problems of set theory, the various solutions and assess the innuence on nominalisation. We shall then discuss Aczel's Frege structures and compare them with Scott domains. Moreover, we shall set the ground for the second part which demonstrates that Frege structures are a suitab...

BACKGROUND AND CASE HISTORY In Linguistics deverbal nominals are defined as nouns displaying some verbal properties. The nature of nominalization has been long debated and since Lees (1960) and Chomsky (1970) a syntactic account has been opposed to a lexical-semantic one. Importantly, both the accounts agree in that deverbal nouns are not a homogeneous class: according to Grimshaw (1990) and Al...

This paper examines the structural and semantics properties of non-eventive nominalizations in Spanish. By applying the decomposition of verbs developed by Ramchand (2008), we identify several configurational constraints in the formation and interpretation of nominalizations. We propose that the notion of ‘result’ actually covers different structures, and that a distinction between objects and ...

The aim of this paper is to examine the nominality of the neologism BREXIT using a corpus-informed lexicogrammatical approach. The term BREXIT, coined in 2012, used initially in print and social media in the UK is now internationally wide-spread. BREXIT is a blend of British + exit, which expresses the meaning of’Britain exiting from the EU’. Although ‘Brexit’ clearly expresses an event (motion...

Nominalistic Logic (NL) is a new presentation of Paul Gilmore’s Intensional Type Theory (ITT) as a sequent calculus together with a succinct nominalization axiom (N) that permits names of predicates as individuals in certain cases. The logic has a flexible comprehension axiom, but no extensionality axiom and no infinity axiom, although axiom N is the key to the derivation of Peano’s postulates ...