English nouns : the ecology of nominalization

Lieber, Rochelle,

English nouns : the ecology of nominalization Rochelle Lieber. - First paperback edition. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016 - ix, 197 pages ; - Cambridge studies in linguistics, 150 .

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).

9781316613870 (softcover) 9781107161375 (hardcover)


English language
English Grammar
English language Nominals
English language Noun

425.54 / LIE

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