[Lingtyp] Question about nominalized verbs

[Keren Ruditsky]

Dear everyone,


I am working on a master's thesis and I was wondering about any cases of languages which have nominalized verbs taking two arguments where the argument syntactically closer to the nominalized verb is marked like the argument of a noun, and the one syntactically further is marked like the argument of a verb.


One example of such a language might be Standard Arabic where, as shown below, the subject of a nominalized verb zayd-in ‘Zayd-GEN’ is marked with genitive case (which is the case used to mark a nominal possessor) while the object  camr-an ‘Amr-ACC’ is marked with accusative case (which is the case used for typical verbal objects).


ntiqaad-u                 zayd-in            camr-an

criticizing-NOM     Zayd-GEN       Amr-ACC

“Zayd’s criticizing Amr” (Fassi Fehri 1993: 223f)


Fassi Fehri, Abdelkader. 1993. Issues in the structure of Arabic clauses and

words. Dordrecht: Kluwer

Thank you,
Keren
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