<div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dear all,</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">thanks a lot for your all answers, I really appreciate that.</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I have found your data very interesting, many comments will follow :-)</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I begin below with David's answer.</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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</font></div></blockquote><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks David, I have read your WALS map at the beginning of my work; maybe you remember that we have exchanged a couple of e-mails some time ago. As you mention in the WALS article, the most important issue here is whether adjectives are syntactic heads in constructions such as 'the white one', which translates in Italian as 'quello bianco'. As you probably noticed, I did not consider these constructions in my study, as they appear to me to be more 'predicative' than 'referential', at least in Italian; moreover, the syntactic head of the Italian construction is most likely the deictic quello 'this'. But what about the Mandarin example that is reported in your map, Wǒ yào hóng de. ? Is </font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">hóng a property concept with referential function ?</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Thanks</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Luigi</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
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</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">On 09/06/2016 21:14, Luigi Talamo
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<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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'. </font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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.</font></div>
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<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">So, possible questions are as following:</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">1. Can property concepts be turned into nouns?</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">2. Which strategies are employed for this purpose?</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">3. Which parameters do de-adjectival nouns display?</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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.</font></div>
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<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">(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><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks in advance for your help, all the best.</font></div>
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