Affiliation:
1. Universität Potsdam , Institut für Slavistik , Am Neuen Palais 10 , Potsdam Germany
2. Masarykova univerzita , Arna Nováka 1 , Brno Czech Republic
Abstract
Summary
The present article ties in with an earlier study by Chomsky (1970) on nominalizations in English, which was then refined primarily in the influential work of Jane Grimshaw (1990) and is dealt with in detail in Borer (2013) and in Kosta (2020). In contrast to the English gerundives, which do not lose verbal behavior due to the derivation in the syntax and maintain all grammatical categories and characteristics of verbs, which is why one can speak of a real conversion while preserving the verbal semantics, the situation is somewhat different in Czech. In the deverbal, deadjective and other derivations, the Czech apparently made the transition to the noun with its critical properties, which is shown by certain restrictions in the aspectuality marking of deverbal noun phrases on -ní-, -tí-, which, e. g., do not pass the progression durativity test (Vendler 1967). In passive constructions, as is well known, a valence point in the position of the external argument is reduced compared to the corresponding active sentences, while the external argument position in anti-causatives is also not available in the deep structure. In addition to the syntactic restrictions that are evident in nominalizations in the context of simple sentences of different sentence types (causative, anti-causative, passive) and demonstrate the nominal character of certain types of deverbal noun phrases in the first part of this article, the second part of the essay deals with more complex structures and extends its analytical and theoretical part to the phenomenon of nominalizing subordinate clauses. The aim of the central part of this contribution is therefore to test the nominal properties of embedded conjunctional sentences and of embedded headless relative sentences on the basis of empirical data and thus contribute to the knowledge of whether certain types of relative sentences can (or must) be nominalized.
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics,Cultural Studies
Reference38 articles.
1. Alexiadou, Artemis, Gianina Iordăchioaia & Florian Schäfer. 2011. Scaling the Variation in Romance and Germanic Nominalizations. In Sleeman, Petra & Harry Peridon (eds.), The Noun Phrase in Romance and Germanic, 25–40. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
2. Alexiadou, Artemis & Jane Grimshaw. 2008. Verbs, Nouns and Affixation. In Schäfer, Florian (ed.), SinSpeC (1): Working Papers of the SFB 732, 1–16. Stuttgart: University of Stuttgart.
3. Alexiadou, Artemis & Monika Rathert. 2010. The Syntax of Nominalizations across Languages and Frameworks. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
4. Alrenga, Peter. 2005. A Sentential Subject Asymmetry in English and its Implications for Complement Selection. In Syntax 8, 175–207.
5. Biskup, Petr. 2019. Prepositions, Case and Verbal Prefixes: The Case of Slavic (= Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today; vol. 255). Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins.