The Verbal Properties of Psych Nominalizations in English
The Verbal Properties of Psych Nominalizations in English
Author(s): Camelia BejanSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Ovidius University Press
Keywords: English; psych nominalizations; verbal properties; process reading; agentive uses; vP-node.
Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the verbal properties of psych nominalizations with a process reading in English. We start from recent research on the verbal character of non-psych transitive nominalizations (Fu, Roeper and Borer 2001) and we argue that psych nominalizations derived from agentive uses of Object Experiencer verbs allow the occurrence of adverbial phrases and the do so anaphor in their structure, and therefore contain a vP-node.
Journal: Analele Universităţii Ovidius din Constanţa. Seria Filologie
- Issue Year: 2006
- Issue No: 17
- Page Range: 243-254
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English
