Deverbalization and inheritance

Hoekstra, Teun

doi:10.1515/ling.1986.24.3.549

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“…It may be the case that the theory of grammar also has to allow for affixes that are attached at the syntactic level. This applies in particular to affixes that nominalize or relativi/e phrases or clauses (Rice 1985, Hoekstra 1986, Kari 1992.…”

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Booij¹

1993

Yearbook of Morphology

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Against split morphology

Booij¹

1993

Yearbook of Morphology

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“…The regularity of argument licensing is explained by assuming that the formal realization of arguments is determined by their thematic roles with respect to the head. In other words, it is not the syntactic structure which is directly inherited from the verb by the nominal, but simply the thematic grid, see Giorgi and Longobardi (1991), and Amritavalli (1980), Hoekstra (1986), Rappaport (1983), or Rozwadowska (1988) for various implementations of this idea.…”

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Nominalizations: A Probe into the Architecture of Grammar Part I: The Nominalization Puzzle

Αλεξιαδου

2010

Language and Linguist. Compass

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Nominalizations have remained in the center of linguistic discussion at least since 1960, and one might be correct in stating that they are still much of a puzzle. In this paper, I offer a partial historical overview of the literature on nominalizations, beginning with a discussion of Chomsky's Remarks on nominalization, surveying the lexicon vs. syntax debate that characterized the research in this area during the 80s and 90s, and concluding with the presentation of some work that focuses on event structure and aspectual properties of nominalizations.

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“…In the literature on action nominalization, this type of Ewe compound falls under the valency-lowering type in which a transitive verb and its internal argument form a composite whose only argument will be the external argument of the verb (Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1993:184-85). Here, it is assumed that the verb is first nominalized and the nominalized verb inherits the internal argument of the underlying verb, as argued for in the literature on derived nominals (see Booij 1988, Hoekstra 1986, Lieber 1989, 1992.…”

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A Survey of Exocentric Compounds in Three Kwa Languages: Akan, Ewe and Ga

Appah

2019

Ghana J. Ling.

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Whereas the existence of exocentric compounds is taken for granted in the literature on compounding, there are just a few studies devoted to the nature and types of exocentric compounds cross-linguistically and in African languages in particular, leaving exocentricity in African languages severely under-researched. This paper seeks to contribute to knowledge on exocentricity by exploring the range of exocentric compounds in three Kwa languages-Akan, Ewe and Gain the context of the typology of exocentric compounds proposed by Bauer (2008a, 2010) who posited five typesbahuvrihi, exocentric synthetic, exocentric co-compounds, transpositional exocentric and metaphorical compounds. Appah (2016b, 2017b) argued that three of the five types (bahuvrihi, exocentric synthetic and transpositional exocentric compounds) with various subtypes occur in Akan. The equivalent of Bauer's metaphorical compounds was subsumed under bahuvrihi compounds, while the absence of exocentric co-compounds was argued to be an areal feature, given the observation that co-compounds are rare in Africa (Wälchli 2005). This paper shows that apart from exocentric co-compounds, the rest are found in the languages under discussion to varying extents. All three languages have metaphorical and location bahuvrihi compounds, but the status of the possessor bahuvrihi type is not certain, except in Akan. Ewe has agentive exocentric synthetic compounds, but not the action and patient types, whilst Ga has none. Again, only Ga does not have transpositional exocentric compounds. Finally, it is observed that all the compounds are nouns, notwithstanding the syntactic category of the constituents. This is another potential areal feature.

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Deverbalization and inheritance

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Nominalizations: A Probe into the Architecture of Grammar Part I: The Nominalization Puzzle

A Survey of Exocentric Compounds in Three Kwa Languages: Akan, Ewe and Ga

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