“…The assumption underlying the latter, namely that argument structure for a deverbal nominal is made possible by its verbal base, is based on a comparison with nominals for which argument structure is (argued to be) either inadmissible or not obligatory (see 2.2, but also Borer, 2003Borer, , 2013Alexiadou, 2009;Alexiadou & Grimshaw, 2008). In the literature this claim is known to issue from "Distributed Morphology" (Bruening, 2018a(Bruening, , 2018bAlexiadou, 2009, etc. ) and "The Exoskeletal Model" (Borer, 2003(Borer, , 2013, two similar theories with certain theory-internal differences.…”