Nominalization

This volume explores the progress of cross-linguistic research into the structure of complex nominals since the publication of Chomsky's 'Remarks on Nominalization' in 1970. In the last 50 years of research into the division of labour between the mental lexicon and syntax the specific properties of nominalized structures have remained a particularly central question. The chapters in this volume take stock of developments in this area and offer new perspectives on a range of issues including the representation of morphological complexity in the syntax the correlation of nominal affixes with different types of nominalizations and the modelling of non-compositional meaning within syntactic approaches to word formation. Crucially the contributors base their analyses on data from typologically diverse languages such as Archi Greek Hiaki Icelandic Mebengokre Turkish and Udmurt and explore the question of whether cross-linguistically nominalizations have a uniform core<br>to their structure that can be syntactically described.<br>