In:Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2013: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Amsterdam 2013
Edited by Enoch O. Aboh, Jeannette Schaeffer and Petra Sleeman
[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 8] 2015
► pp. 223–238
Deverbal nominalization with the ‘Down’-operator
Published online: 2 December 2015
https://doi.org/10.1075/rllt.8.12ior
https://doi.org/10.1075/rllt.8.12ior
We argue that the nominal supine in Romanian is a nominalization by the definite determiner in its interpretation as a ‘Down’-operator, which correlates with an event-kind denotation. We use as evidence the restricted nominal properties of the nominal supine, which indicate that it does not have a typical (overt or covert) nominalizing suffix of the kind that other nominalizations like the nominal infinitive and the nominalized participle have. We further show that among these nominalization patterns, only the semantics of the nominal supine correlates with kinds. Eventually, this case study shows how the nominalizing function of the ‘Down’-operator from Chierchia (1984) can be unified with its kind semantics in Chierchia (1998).
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