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One of the two kinds of nominalization mentioned in the query
('beautiful' > 'beautiful one') is the subject of my WALS map #61
"Adjectives without Nouns".<br>
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David<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/06/2016 21:14, Luigi Talamo
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<div>Dear all,</div>
<div>I am conducting a research on the lexical nominalisation of
property concepts in contemporary Italian. My study involves
two types of nominalisation strategy, affixation such as bello
`beautiful' -> bell-ezza `beauty (abstract concept)' and
zero-marking ('conversion'), such as bello (adj) -> `(il)
bello' -> `the beautiful person', `beauty (abstract
concept)' and `what is beautiful about something'. </div>
<div>Drawing mostly from 'Leipzig Questionnaire On
Nominalisation and mixed Categories' (Malchukov et alii
(2008)) and studies on adjectival and mixed categories, I have
elaborated a series of morpho-syntactic and semantic
parameters, which I have employed to study de-adjectival
nominalizations in actual, corpus-based contexts.</div>
<div>I would like to insert in my study some cross-linguistic
notes on the phenomenon, which I hope to further study from a
typological perspective. I will be glad if you can provide me
some examples from your languages of expertise. I have found
some examples of de-adjectival nominalizations here and there
in grammars, but I was not able to exactly figure out which
are the parameters involved; moreover, some recent works
(among others, Roy (2010), Alexiadou et alii (2010), Alexiadou
& Iordachioaia (2014)) give interesting insights on
de-adjectival nominalization, but examples are limited to
European languages.</div>
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<div>I am particularly interested in non-European languages
showing a distinct class of adjectives; morpho-syntatic
parameters include case, number, gender, definiteness and
specificity, degree, external argument structure and,
possibly, verbal parameters, which are however not very
significant for Italian de-adjectival nominalisation; semantic
parameters include referent animacy, the distinction between
the nominalisation of the adjectival 'argument' vs. the
nominalisation of the adjective itself e.g., softie `a thing
which is soft' vs. softness and the semantic type of property
concepts e.g., PHYSICAL PROPERTY or HUMAN PROPENSITY.<br>
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<div>So, possible questions are as following:</div>
<div>1. Can property concepts be turned into nouns?</div>
<div>2. Which strategies are employed for this purpose?</div>
<div>3. Which parameters do de-adjectival nouns display?</div>
<div>4. Are there any missing values for a given parameter? For
instance, de-adjectival nouns can be only singular or definite
or restricted to the subject position.</div>
<div>5. Are de-adjectival nouns found in both semantic types of
nominalization? For instance, I have observed that European
languages focus on the nominalisation of the adjective itself,
while argument nominalizations are scarcely attested, limited
to certain language varieties and not stable in the lexicon.</div>
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<div>(needless to say, questions 2 to 4 can have multiple
answers, helping to describe different patterns of property
nominalisation)<br>
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<div>Thanks in advance for your help, all the best.</div>
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<div>Luigi</div>
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<div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">PhD Program in Linguistics
('Scienze Linguistiche')<br>
University of Bergamo and University of Pavia - Italy</div>
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Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
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