This chapter focuses on the semantic contribution of ANs' suffixal heads and offers a formal
representation of their content. In particular, I will show how and to what extent the …

In this research, I survey a significant pattern of deverbal word-formation in Italian, and
integrate the data analysis into a recently developed theoretical model of derivational …

In this paper, we examine the event/result meaning contrast displayed by Italian nominals
derived from creation and redescription verbs, such as costruzione 'construction …

Abstract Nordlinger & Sadler's (2004. Nominal tense in crosslinguistic perspective.
Language 80. 776–806) seminal work fostered an intense debate on the semantics of …

In this thesis, I study the differences in form and interpretation presented by event-denoting
nominalizations. Frequently, languages have more than one type of event nominalization …

Nominalizations are complex words, which, under a classic view of the architecture of the
language faculty, belong to the domain of word structure, or morphology. In the simplest …

In this paper we bring evidence from English and Italian deverbal zero nominals (to climb>
the climb-Ø N) that zero is a possible spell-out of a nominalizer otherwise overtly instantiated …

This study investigates the existence of complex morphological patterns that include a
regular polysemy extension. Such complex patterns derive ambiguous words whose …

Questo lavoro si propone di analizzare le strategie di derivazione di nomi a partire da basi
predicative–che chiameremo semplicemente “nomi deverbali”–nel greco antico, nel duplice …

This paper deals with the event/result meaning contrast displayed by most deverbal Action
Nominals (AN). We claim that this intriguing pattern of inherent polysemy is peculiar when …