[Lingtyp] Question about nominalized verbs

[Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm]

Dear Keren,

This is an example of the nominalisation type that I call “Possessive-Accusative” type in my book “Nominalizations” (1993, Routledge) – I can send you a couple of other publications that summarise my typology.
All the best,
Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm


On 15 Aug 2023, at 17:48, Keren Ruditsky <krudit at uw.edu<mailto:krudit at uw.edu>> wrote:

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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