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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Dear all,<BR><BR>I am looking for descriptions
of analytic nominalizers – usually grammaticalized from nouns ‘person’, ‘thing’,
‘event’ and ‘place’ (like Japanese <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">koto</I>, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">mono</I> etc.), especially if they are being
grammaticalized further to smth. other than complementizers, say, modal words or
affirmative/evidential/etc. particles (like in Mongolic l-s). <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">I would be grateful for references from other
languages with such phenomena.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Many thanks in advance,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Elena
Skribnik<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>