TY - BOOK AU - Lieber,Rochelle TI - English nouns : the ecology of nominalization T2 - Cambridge studies in linguistics, 150 SN - 9781316613870 (softcover) U1 - 425.54 PY - 2016/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press, KW - English language KW - English Grammar KW - English language Nominals KW - English language Noun N1 - Includes index; Preliminaries. Introduction Terminology and methodology Data. Event/result nominalizations Nominalizations as a derivational ecosystem Nominalization in LSF. A lexical semantic approach to nominalization : the basics The eventive readings Referential readings Nominalizations and compounding in LSF Nouns in the wild N2 - English Nouns explores the mechanisms by which English nominalizations come to have a variety of readings depending on their syntactic context. It debunks previous syntactic treatments using data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (Davies, 2008) and proposes a lexical semantic analysis within Lieber's Lexical Semantic Framework (2004) ER -