Abstract:This is a survey entry on mixed categories, including deverbal nominalizations, deverbal adjectivalizations and deadjectival nominalizations. Section 1 introduces the problems that mixed categories present for X' theory, and more specifically for the problem of headedness. Section 2 discusses derived and non‐derived deverbal nominalizations and shows how their analysis was first based on a distinction between syntax and lexicon, but later on formation in syntax only. In Section 3 the same is done for derived a… Show more
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