On nominal arguments

This paper presents a formal account of the critical difference between standard nominalization and “mixed nominalization” (aka. nominal gerunds) of Chomsky (1970). Using patterns of morphological/syntactic distribution, binding properties, polarity effects and lexical semantic variation, I show tha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Punske, Jeffrey
Other Authors: University of Arizona
Language:en_US
Published: University of Arizona Linguistics Circle 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/104644