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The Noun Phrase in Romance and Germanic: Structure, variation, and changeEdited by Petra Sleeman and Harry Perridon
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 171] 2011
► pp. 25–40
Scaling the variation in Romance and Germanic nominalizations
Artemis Alexiadou | Universität Stuttgart
Gianina Iordachioaia | Universität Stuttgart
Florian Schäfer | Universität Stuttgart
We investigate the distribution of verbal and nominal layers in Romance and Germanic nominalizations. Specifically, we examine pairs of ‘verbal’ vs. ‘nominal’ nominalizations in two Romance (Spanish & Romanian) and two Germanic (English & German) languages. Our study proposes a large spectrum of nominal and verbal properties. While these are differently instantiated among languages, the variation we find cannot be attributed to a Germanic vs. Romance parameter; instead, we find micro-variation constrained by the compatibility between the general building blocks of verbal and nominal categories. Besides the vP-layers responsible for argument structure and Aktionsart and the DP-layer responsible for the nominal external syntax, we make a case for further functional verbal and nominal layers in nominalizations: Asp(ect)P, Class(ifier)P, and Num(ber)P. These projections are in complementary distribution in some languages and co-occur in others.
Published online: 16 February 2011
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.171.04ale
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.171.04ale
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