Functional structure in nominals : nominalization and ergativity / Artemis Alexiadou.

This monograph offers an in depth investigation of nominalization processes across languages e.g. Greek, Germanic, Romance, Hebrew, Slavic. Adopting and extending the view that category formation does not involve any lexical operation (recently put forth within the framework of Distributed Morpholog...

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Main Author: Alexiadou, Artemis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2001.
Series:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 42.
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Table of Contents:
  • Functional Structure in Nominals; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. The Functional Architecture of Nominalizations; Chapter 3. Intransitivity in Nominalization; Chapter 4. Variation in Functional Structure; Chapter 5. Nominalization and Ergativity; Chapter 6. Conclusions; References; Index; LINGUISTIK AKTUELL/LINGUISTICS TODAY (LA).