Japanese/Korean Linguistics 25.
Edited by Shin Fukuda, Mary Shin Kim, and Mee-Jeong Park.
Copyright © 2018, CSLI Publications
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Nominal-based Nominalization
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MASAYOSHI SHIBATANI
Rice Univesity
SUNG-YEO CHUNG
Osaka University
1 Introduction
The current definitions of nominalization, such as the following, are based
on narrow observations of nominalization phenomena and suffer from
major defects in (i) the overall characterization of the process (not any noun
can be derived from any verb (e.g. laugh > singer?); the process is far more
constrained than any of the definitions has it, (ii) the specification of the
input to the process (only verbs or members of non-nominal classes?), and
(iii) the specification of the output of the process (only nouns or noun
phrases?).
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* The work reported here was supported in part by the International Joint Research Promotion
Program of Osaka University (PI: Sung-Yeo Chung) and the project “Noun modifying