The interpretation of nominalized expressions in English poses several problems. First, it must be explained how their meanings are derived from the meanings of the underlying verbs. Second, different forms of nominalizations differ in their semantic behaviour. Finally, aspectual restrictions which exist for ingofnominals must be explained. The solution to be proposed is based on the assumption...

From the work of (Lees, 1960), through (Chomsky, 1970) and (Grimshaw, 1990), to more recent studies, nominalizations have occupied a central place in grammatical analysis, with a focus on morphological and syntactic aspects. More recently, researchers have begun to address a specific issue often neglected before, i.e. the semantics of nominalizations, and its implications for Natural Language P...

One of the most distinctive linguistic characteristics of modern academic writing is its reliance on nominalized structures. These include nouns that have been morphologically derived from verbs (e.g., development, progression) as well as verbs that have been ‘converted’ to nouns (e.g., increase, use). Almost any sentence taken from an academic research article will illustrate the use of such s...

This paper provides a syntactic analysis of two types compounds in Greek: synthetic and phrasal derived from agentive nominalizations verbal strings containing an internal argument the verb. The is couched within ‘morphology as syntax’ account uses independently motivated tools to show that both are syntax proper without any need for separate morphological component. differences properties expl...

New York University has produced a dictionary of nominalizations (NOMLEX) whose entries capture the relationship of the nominalization with its associated verb. This dictionary indicates where the verbal arguments may be found in the noun phrase which contains the nominalization. We have now made a study and produced some entries for nominalizations and their co-occurring verbs. These entries a...