Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Theoretical assumptions -- Chapter 3. Nominalization -- Chapter 4. The functional organization of nominal and clause -- Chapter 5. Deverbal -er suffixation: Towards a descriptive position -- Chapter 6. The middle construction -- Chapter 7. A multifunctional approach to -er nominalization -- Chapter 8. Factive nominalization: Towards a descriptive position -- Chapter 9. A functional analysis of factive nominalizations as nominal constructions -- Chapter 10. Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Backmatter
Summary
The main objective of the book is to present a systematic account of the constructional mechanisms that underlie deverbal nominalization. Such an account strongly calls for a functional rather than purely structural approach because nominalizations are basically functional re-classifications of verbal predicates into nominal constructions. The argument is fortyfied by a detailed discussion of a number of nominalization systems (i.e. deverbal -er nominalizations, gerundive nominals and that-nominalizations). This book is of interest to all researchers in cognitive and functional linguistics
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-280) and index
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