English nouns : the ecology of nominalization Rochelle Lieber.

By: Lieber, Rochelle [Author]Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge studies in linguistics, 150Publication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016Edition: First paperback editionDescription: ix, 197 pagesISBN: 9781316613870 (softcover); 9781107161375 (hardcover)Subject(s): English language | English Grammar | English language Nominals | English language NounDDC classification: 425.54
Contents:
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
Summary: 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).
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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

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).

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