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Tables of Contents for Functional Structure in Nominals
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Acknowledgements
ix
Introduction
1
26
Some theoretical and methodological preliminaries
1
8
Verbs and deverbal nominals in English
1
1
Derived nominals and gerunds
2
1
Word formation and the lexicon
3
3
Word and category formation in DM
6
3
An ambiguity in the nominal system
9
7
Process versus result nominals: Grimshaw's diagnostics
10
2
The role of the event argument
12
2
The VP analysis
14
2
The fine structure of process nominals: a first encounter
16
4
Nominalization patterns across languages
20
1
Outline
21
6
The Functional Architecture of Nominalizations
27
50
Introduction
27
8
NPs are dominated by D
27
2
AgrP, NumberP and GenderP
29
1
On the A vs. A' status of Spec, DP
30
3
Some notes on the Greek DP
33
2
Greek nominal formation
35
12
General remarks
35
3
Nominals derived from transitive predicates
38
2
Nominals derived from intransitive predicates
40
2
Nominals derived from ditransitive predicates
42
3
Nominals derived from psychological predicates
45
2
The verbal properties of process nominals
47
12
DP-internal adverbs
47
3
Morphological reflexes
50
1
Aspectual distinctions
51
5
The structural differences between process and result nominals
56
3
Process nominals lack tense
59
7
Absence of phenomena related to T: EPP, ECM and raising
59
4
Evidence for nominal tense
63
3
On the obligatory licensing of arguments within process nominals
66
1
Processes in morphological structure
67
2
Conclusion
69
8
Intransitivity in Nominalization
77
50
Event nominals are ergative constructions
78
12
Greek event nominals
78
2
Event nominals in English and other Germanic languages
80
1
Event nominals in Romance
81
4
Slavic event nominals
85
2
Semitic event nominals
87
2
Hungarian event nominals
89
1
On the properties of passive nominals
90
21
Background
90
3
Affectedness and aspectual properties
93
10
Referential adjectives
103
4
No process of passivization
107
4
The structure of process nominals revisited
111
4
By-phrases and more on the lack of external arguments
115
12
Variation in Functional Structure
127
40
Variation in the set of verbal projections
127
16
Presence vs. absence of C
127
1
Presence vs. absence of Aspect
128
7
Variation depending on the type of v/Voice (transitive vs. intransitive)
135
8
Variation in the set of nominal projections
143
14
Presence vs. absence of number: licensing of adjectival modification
143
1
Variation depending on the type of D
144
13
Summary
157
10
Nominalization and Ergativity
167
44
The Case patterns in nominalization and ergative languages
167
2
Unaccusativity in ergative languages
169
4
Ergative as a lexical case
169
2
v is deficient in ergative languages
171
2
Remarks on Case within DPs
173
6
Genitive is a structural case
173
2
Case as a morphological property
175
2
Locus of genitive
177
2
Agents, ergativity and the perfect
179
13
Background
182
3
The crosslinguistic distribution of the possessive agent
185
3
Possessor subjects in the perfect
188
4
Auxiliary selection
192
5
HAVE-BE and the perfect
192
2
Auxiliary selection languages and only HAVE languages
194
3
Conclusion
197
14
Conclusions
211
4
References
215
14
Index
229