Nominalization

Abstract

Abstract Nominalization is a process of changing a verb or an adjective into a noun. Chapter 9 focuses on complement clauses with nominalizers. Complement clauses with two Korean nominalizers -kiand -(u)mand complement clauses with kes(a complementizer) are compared in regard to their syntactic structure, the morphological case of their subject (whether or not a genitive case is possible in place of a nominative case), and the presence or absence of a tense morpheme. Japanese nominalizers no, koto, and tokoroare compared regarding the semantic type of verbs that take them. All the Japanese nominalizers allow genitive subjects and only one of the Korean nominalizers, i.e., -(u)m, allows genitive subjects. An issue regarding genitive subjects and analyses proposed to account for the relevant phenomena, e.g., the D-licensing approach, are referred to at the end of this chapter.