Scaling the variation in Romance and Germanic nominalizations

Αλεξιαδου, Αρτεμισ; Iordăchioaia, Gianina; Schäfer, Florian

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“…I assume here that the verbal properties of event nominalizations are a consequence of the presence of verbal structure, and therefore that the differences between event and result nominalizations is structural (Hazout 1991;Van Hout and Roeper 1998;Fu, Roeper, and Borer 2001;Alexiadou 2001b;Harley 2009; a.o.) As a consequence, the different types of nominalizations (event, state, quality, result) can be derived from the layers present under the nominalizer and the position this categorizer occupies in the configuration (Harley and Noyer 1998;Alexiadou 2001b;Alexiadou, Iordăchioaia, and Schäfer 2011;Borer 2003Borer , 2005Ramchand 2008;Fábregas 2016;a.o. ).…”

Section: The Syntax Of Nominalizations Of Incremental Theme Verbsmentioning

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Adjectives of completeness as maximizers of event nominalizations

Masià

2017

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ABSTRACT. Aspectual modifiers that have adverbial and adjectival counterparts are an important source of information for researching lexical aspect in the nominal domain. One class of such modifiers are adverbs of completeness (completamente 'completely', totalmente 'totally'), which are maximizers when modify adjectives, and their correspondent adjectives (completo 'complete', total 'total'). This paper addresses the inheritance of aspectual features and its relation to degree in event nominalizations of incremental theme verbs (traduccción 'translation', destrucción 'destruction') through the analysis of the modification performed by adjectives of completeness in Spanish. The proposal combines a syntactic account of deverbal nominalizations with a scalar approach to aspect. Adjectives of completeness are argued to be aspectual modifiers, with a contribution equivalent to that of their adverbial counterparts both in the verbal and in the adjectival domain, establishing thus a parallelism between degree modification of adjectives, verbs and nominals.Keywords. Adjectives of completeness; aspectual inheritance; nominalizations; incremental theme verbs; variable telicity; degree modification; maximizers.RESUMEN. Los modificadores aspectuales que tienen versiones adverbiales y adjetivales constituyen una importante fuente de información a la hora de investigar el aspecto léxico en el ámbito nominal. Los adverbios de completitud (completamente, totalmente), que son modificadores de maximalidad cuando modifican adjetivos, y sus correlatos adjetivales (completo, total) son modificadores de este tipo. Este artículo aborda la herencia de rasgos aspectuales y su relación con los grados en las nominalizaciones de evento de los verbos de tema incremental (traducción, destrucción) a través del análisis de la modificación por parte de los adjetivos de completitud en español. La propuesta combina un acercamiento constructivista a las nominalizaciones deverbales con un análisis escalar del aspecto. En concreto, se defiende que los adjetivos de completitud son modificadores aspectuales que tienen una contribución equivalente a la de sus correlatos adverbiales, tanto en el ámbito verbal como en el adjetival. Se establece así un paralelismo entre la modificación de grado de adjetivos, verbos y nombres.

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Section: The Syntax Of Nominalizations Of Incremental Theme Verbsmentioning

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Adjectives of completeness as maximizers of event nominalizations

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2017

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“…Alexiadou et al (2011) argue that there is no parametric difference between Germanic and Romance languages with respect to the properties of non-derived nominalizations. The four Germanic and Romance languages that they analyze, viz.…”

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“…On the basis of the presence of the subject of the infinitive in the Spanish example (6), Alexiadou et al (2011) analyze the verbal nominalized infinitive in Spanish as the most verbal type. In its structure, it has various verbal functional projections (7).…”

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“…Within the framework of the Lexicalist Hypothesis (Chomsky 1970) the discussion focused on the opposite properties and uses of deverbal categories, either verbal or nominal/adjectival (e.g., Chomsky 1970;Wasow 1977;Grimshaw 1990;Levin & Rappaport 1992). More recent research, couched within the framework of Distributed Morphology (Halle & Marantz 1993Harley & Noyer, 1999), has shifted the attention to the mixed properties of deverbal categories (e.g., Borsley & Kornfilt 2000;Alexiadou 2001;Embick 2004;Alexiadou et al 2011;Sleeman 2010). These posed a problem for analyses within the framework of the Lexicalist Hypothesis.…”

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Adjectives in Germanic and Romance

Sleeman¹,

Velde²,

Perridon³

2014

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

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Although the Germanic and Romance languages are two branches of the same language family and although both have developed the adjective as a separate syntactic and morphological category, the syntax, morphology, and interpretation of adjectives is by no means the same in these two language groups, and there is even variation within each of the language groups. One of the main aims of this volume is to map the differences and similarities in syntactic behavior, morphology, and meaning of the Germanic and Romance adjective and to find an answer to the following question: Are the (dis)similarities the result of autonomous developments in each of the two branches of the Indo-European language family, or are they caused by language contact?

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“…In this way, the inner verbal behavior (lower verbal functional projections) and the outer nominal behavior (higher nominal functional projections) can be accounted for. Alexiadou et al (2011) distinguish between verbal and nominal nominalized infinitives. In the first type, the verbal properties dominate, in the second type it is the nominal properties that dominate.…”

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From participle to adjective in Germanic and Romance

Sleeman¹

2014

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

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Being mixed categories, participles can be fully verbal, fully adjectival, but they can also have a mixed interpretation, viz. as resultatives, which are considered to be a second adjectival type, one that is the result of an event. Parallel to the two types of adjectival participles and the eventive one, a second type of eventive participle has been distinguished, one with an ‘eventive property’ reading. These four interpretations have been distinguished on the basis of Germanic languages, partly determined by the prenominal or postnominal position of the participle within the noun phrase. In this paper it is argued, based on the combination of the adverbs of degree très “very” and beaucoup “much” with passive/past participles in French, that participles can also have the four interpretations in Romance.

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Scaling the variation in Romance and Germanic nominalizations

Cited by 40 publications

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Adjectives of completeness as maximizers of event nominalizations

Adjectives of completeness as maximizers of event nominalizations

Adjectives in Germanic and Romance

From participle to adjective in Germanic and Romance

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