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Modern Greek deverbal nominals: an LMT approach1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Stella Markantonatou
Stella Markantonatou
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University of Essex
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This paper argues that there are Modern Greek (MG) deverbal nominal predicates which take syntactic arguments. A mechanism for the derivation of these nominals requiring the existence of an ‘internal’ ([ — r]) argument is proposed which has broader coverage than the mechanism proposed in Grimshaw (1990). A small set of simple, unification-based operations is employed to model the relation between the argument structure of verb predicates and that of the corresponding deverbal nominals with an ‘ eventive’ reading. The Lexical Mapping Theory of LFG (LMT) is the theoretical framework of the present discussion.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , September 1995 , pp. 267 - 299
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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