Nominalisierte Infinitive werden in der einschlägigen Literatur gerne als bona-fide-Ereignisnomina herangezogen. Das Ableitungsmuster gilt als uneingeschränkt produktiv und auch die Vererbung und Realisierung der Argumente des Basisverbs unterliegt scheinbar keinen Beschränkunge…
Using extensive data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (Davies, 2008), this groundbreaking book shows that the syntactic patterns in which English nominalizations can be found and the range of possible readings they can express are very different from what has bee…
"The Language of Propositions and Events offers a comprehensive theory of the relation between noun meaning and verb meaning. Two main theses are defended in this book. The first thesis is that an adequate account of the interpretation and distribution of nominals calls for a di…