ON THE SYNTAX OF DEVERBAL NOMINALIZATIONS IN ENGLISH AND ROMANIAN

The book offers a syntactic and semantic perspective on the nominalization system in both English and Romanian. The three main types of deverbal nominalizations analysed here are complex event nominalizations CENs), simple event nominals SENs) and result nominals RNs), according to the well-known distinction made by Grimshaw 1990). The hypothesis furthered in the present book is that in both languages deverbal nominalizations form a squish see Ross 1972), i. e. an implicational hierarchy which is built on two dimensions, a syntactic dimension, i. e. , the presence or absence of a complete VP, including some functional structure AspP), and a semantic dimension, i. e. , whether or not the nominalization expresses an event see Wood 2020). Thus, all the properties of CENs, SENs and RNs described in the literature Grimshaw 1990, Alexiadou 2001, Borer 2011, a. o. ) are accounted for on the basis of these two dimensions and are illustrated on a vast corpus of authentic English and Romanian examples gathered from dictionaries and online corpora such as Corpusul computational de referinta pentru limba romana contemporana CoRoLa), the British National Corpus BNC) and Corpus of Contemporary American English COCA). continuă pe Editura Universităţii Bucureşti