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Cross-linguistic investigations of nominalization patterns / edited by Ileana Paul, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 210.
- Linguistik aktuell, 0166-0829 ; volume 210
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Nominals.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (231 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Patterns of nominalization in Blackfoot are surveyed. It is demonstrated that two of these patterns behave like nouns while two others only partially behave like nouns. Degrees of nominality are analyzed within the assumption that there is a universal syntactic spine, a hierarchically organized set of categories, which are not intrinsically specified for nominality or verbality. They are category-neutral. Different nominalization patterns (and degrees of nominality) reduce to different ways of introducing the nominalizer: it may be introduced by a dedicated morphological marker (nominalization
- Contents:
- part 1. Verbal structure inside nominalizations
- part 2. The referent of nominalization
- part 3. The nature of the nominalizer.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 11, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 9789027270702
- 9027270708
- OCLC:
- 870088282
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