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Event and Result Nominals: A Morpho-semantic Approach by Chiara Melloni 9783034306584

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The syntax and semantics of deverbal action nominals, notoriously ambiguous between event and result interpretation, have been a thought-provoking issue in many areas of theoretical linguistics. This volume contributes to current work on this topic by showing how the analysis of these nouns can benefit from a morphological and lexical-semantic treatment.
While being a revealing synthesis of a number of formal accounts on this popular research domain, this study specifically targets the largely unexplored area of result nouns and addresses several crucial issues. What are result nouns in a strictly lexical-semantic perspective? Why do some verb classes allow ambiguous event/result nominal correlates, while others do not? What are the relevant verbal features involved in result noun formation? Is there a range of predictability in the number and types of meaning conveyed by a derived nominal?
Couched within a framework of decompositional lexical semantic, the analysis offers original formal solutions to the polysemy issues arising in this word formation domain and convincingly argues in favor of the semantic alignment between the morphologically simplex and complex lexicon. A compelling range of Italian data provides empirical support to the author's claims.

About the Author
Chiara Melloni is Assistant Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Verona. Her research interests cover the fields of morphology and lexical semantics, and her investigations focus on the formal and semantic properties of the morphologically complex lexicon. In particular, her work concentrates on word formation phenomena, such as nominalization and compounding. Her scientific production has been published in several international journals and miscellanies.


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ISBN 9783034306584
Author Chiara Melloni
Format Paperback
Page Count 318
Imprint Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publisher Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Weight(grams) 470g

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