The Semantics of Nominalizations across Languages and Frameworks

The volume explores the semantics of nominalizations from different theoretical points of view: formal and lexical semantics, cognitive-functional grammar, lexical-functional grammar, discourse representation theory. Data from a variety of languages are taken into account, including Hungarian, Italian, French, German and English. The papers discuss the semantics of distinct readings of nominalizations and meaning differences observed between competing affixes.

Artemis Alexiadou, University of Stuttgart, Germany; Monika Rathert, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany.