Event-related Nominals

Isabelle Roy (1) , Elena Soare (1)

1 SFL - Structures Formelles du Langage

The literature on nominalizations often distinguishes classes of derived (deverbal) nominals with an event related interpretation, commonly analyzed as inherited from the semantics of the underlying verbal/aspectual structure. However, the classes of nouns that have been called 'eventive' exhibit sometimes contrastive properties. Dealing here with 3 such classes of derived nominals, i.e., Complex Event nominals (CENs), Simple Event nominals (SENs) and 'eventive' -er nominals, we propose a system that distinguishes between a 'strong' grammatical event and a 'weak' semantic event to account for the properties of event inheriting nominals.

Mots clés: -er nominals; simple event nominals; argument-structure nominals; event variable

Domaines: Linguistique

Isabelle Roy, Elena Soare. Event-related Nominals. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Categorization and category change, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.123-152, 2013, ISBN (10): 1-4438-5140-X. ⟨hal-00723654v2⟩