Spanish deverbal nominalizations are linguistic constructions characterized by presenting properties of common nouns but also by inheriting the argument structure of the verbs from which they derive. This duality aroused considerable interest in deverbal nominalizations in Linguistics. On the one hand, they can denote both the state or the result of the action expressed by the corresponding bas...

Nominalizations are expressions that are particularly challenging philosophically in that they help form singular terms that seem to refer to abstract or derived objects often considered controversial. The three standard views about the semantics of nominalizations are [1] that they map mere meanings onto objects, [2] that they refer to implicit arguments, and [3] that they introduce new object...

Nominalizations describing events and tropes have a received considerable interest in the semantic (and philosophical) literature. By contrast, nominalizations of modal predicates and the modal objects they describe have received little, if any, attention in the literature so far. This paper is a case study of nominalizations of the sort need and possibility as well as permission, obligation, i...

This paper deals with nominalizations in German. The first part summarizes the facts about German nominalizations. There are many different types of nominalizations in German. We discuss three kinds of nominalizations in particular: infinitival nominals like das Laufen (walking), so-called “stem”-derived nominals like Fahrt (trip, ride), and, prominently, -ung nominals like Verschwendung (waste...

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 ...

This paper reports on a corpus-based quantitative study of the use of nominalizations across China English and British English in two comparable media corpora. In contrast to previous corpus-based studies of nominalizations, we start by using a syntactic approach and proceed with some methodological innovations incorporating large lexical databases and syntactically annotated corpora. The data ...

In this paper I examine two types of nominalizations related to color adjectives in Greek, a suffixed one and a neutral one, which I will compare to their English and Dutch (and German) counterparts. I show that the two differ in that suffixed nominalizations denote stage level properties, while neuter nominalizations denote individual level properties. This difference is due to the fact that s...

This article deals with deverbal nominalizations in Spanish; concretely, we focus on the denotative distinction between event and result nominalizations. The goals of this work is twofold: first, to detect the most relevant features for this denotative distinction; and, second, to build an automatic classification system of deverbal nominalizations according to their denotation. We have based o...