Eventualities under deadjectival nominalizations

Villalba, Xavier

doi:10.7557/1.2.2.2617

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“…It is the mass reading -analyzed as a predicate of degrees (49b) -which raises questions. While degrees and states are both quite abstract, they can be distinguished by arguments that states (like all eventualities) occupy space and time (Moltmann 2009;Villalba 2013) and instantiate manners ( Landman & Morzycki 2003;Wellwood 2014;Anderson & Morzycki 2015;Ernst 2016), while degrees do not. 13 Some authors have claimed to the contrary that states are not full Davidsonian eventualities (Katz 2003;Maienborn 2007) -that they do not occupy time or space or instantiate manners -but there are strong empirical arguments that they do.…”

Section: The Degree Analysis Without Statesmentioning

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Adjectives relate individuals to states: Evidence from the two readings of English Determiner + Adjective

Glass

2019

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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As an argument in favor of the (minority) view that adjectives involve a neo-Davidsonian state argument, I argue that it grounds an analysis of the English Determiner + Adjective construction (the old). On its " individuated" reading (the old are generally happier), this construction seems to refer to old individuals; on its "mass" reading (the old is never ordinary), to something like oldness. Empirically, this paper uses naturally-occurring data to show that both readings are more productive than sometimes suggested. Theoretically, the two readings are parsimoniously derived by existentially closing off one or the other of the two arguments (the individual argument x, the state argument s) made available by the state analysis-λxλs[old(s) ∧ holder(x,s)]-deriving a predicate of individuals for the individuated reading, and a predicate of states for the mass reading. This account of Determiner + Adjective further reflects the philosophical idea that properties can be construed as predicates of individuals or as the abstract thing that those individuals share; and connects to other ways of nominalizing both verb phrases and adjectives.

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Section: The Degree Analysis Without Statesmentioning

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Adjectives relate individuals to states: Evidence from the two readings of English Determiner + Adjective

Glass

2019

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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“…Aquellas que se forman a partir de adjetivos evaluativos (como 'honestidad', 'generosidad', etc.) han sido objeto de la mayoría de los análisis sobre nominalizaciones deadjetivales 1 (Alexiadou, 2011;Martin, 2010;Roy, 2010;Fábregas, 2011;Villalba, 2013; entre otros), pues parecen tener un uso más frecuente. Las nominalizaciones a partir de adjetivos calificativos intersectivos no evaluativos, en las que este trabajo se centra, han sido menos estudiadas.…”

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Lo concreto y lo abstracto en nominalizaciones deadjetivales

Polakof

2019

Rev. signos

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Este artículo analiza el comportamiento de las nominalizaciones a partir de adjetivos intersectivos no evaluativos. Primero, presenta un análisis cuantitativo que compara el uso de las nominalizaciones al de los adjetivos a partir de los cuales se forman. Segundo, hace un análisis cualitativo de las lecturas abstractas y las concretas que presentan. Defiende que, si bien nominalizaciones como 'blancura' pueden tener un significado abstracto intrínseco, presentan lecturas concretas que deben ser analizadas. Defiende, además, que la diferencia entre la lectura concreta y la abstracta radica en la estructura sintáctica del sintagma determinante que las nominalizaciones forman. Esto permite establecer que no es necesario proponer la existencia de un ítem léxico con lectura concreta y con lectura abstracta, sino que es posible asociar esa diferencia semántica a una diferencia sintáctica estructural.

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“…That mass deadjectival nominalizations express states is not a new contribution: Roy (2010), for French; Villalba (2013), for Spanish; Borer (2013) and Glass (2019), for English; and Baglini (2015), for Wolof and English, have already proposed that mass deadjectival nominalizations express states. However, although this characterization is correct, it is also insufficient inasmuch as there is empirical evidence that mass deadjectival nominalizations cannot express perfective states.…”

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Encoding States Is Not Enough: The Case of Spanish Deadjectival Nominalizations1

Zato

2020

Studia Linguistica

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In this paper, I argue that mass deadjectival nominalizations like belleza 'beauty' encode imperfective states, which explains why they are compatible with temporal modifiers, but not with aspectual ones. In contrast to what is claimed in F abregas & Mar ın (2012), this paper provides empirical evidence that Spanish nominalizations can encode not only information related to lexical aspect (i.e. (a)telicity), but also information related to viewpoint aspect (i.e. (im)perfectivity). My analysis is based on Anderson's & Morzycki's (2015) model on gradability, in which gradable adjectives express states and degrees are derived from state-kinds, which allows accounting for the properties of mass deadjectival nominalizations compositionally, insofar as they inherit the adjectival properties.

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Eventualities under deadjectival nominalizations

Cited by 8 publications

References 25 publications

Adjectives relate individuals to states: Evidence from the two readings of English Determiner + Adjective

Adjectives relate individuals to states: Evidence from the two readings of English Determiner + Adjective

Lo concreto y lo abstracto en nominalizaciones deadjetivales

Encoding States Is Not Enough: The Case of Spanish Deadjectival Nominalizations1

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