Aspects of the internal structure of nominalization: roots, morphology and derivation

This dissertation uses syntactic, semantic and morphological evidence from English nominalization to probe the interaction of event-structure and syntax, develop a typology of structural complexity within nominalization, and test hypotheses about the strict ordering of functional items. I focus on t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Punske, Jeffrey Paul
Other Authors: Karimi, Simin
Language:en
Published: The University of Arizona. 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/222837