Lithuanian nominalizations and the case marking of their arguments

Collection:
Mokslo publikacijos / Scientific publications
Document Type:
Knygos dalis / Part of the book
Language:
Anglų kalba / English
Title:
Lithuanian nominalizations and the case marking of their arguments
In the Book:
Argument realization in Baltic / edited by Axel Holvoet, Nicole Nau. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016. P. 523-549. (Valency, argument realization and grammatical relations in Baltic ; 3)
Summary / Abstract:

ENThe article focuses on case marking of the arguments of deverbal nouns (action and agent nouns) in Lithuanian, with particular attention paid to argument alternation. As nominalizations derived from verbs taking nominative, accusative and genitive have already been studied, I mainly analyse nominalizations from verbs taking dative, instrumental and locative NPs, as well as PPs. Action nouns in Lithuanian retain more verbal features than agent nouns. Though action nouns tend to retain their oblique arguments, the choice of the argument with action nouns can depend on productivity, word order, semantic role and the animacy of the argument, while the alternation with agent nouns can depend on the form of the NP/PP and on the frequency of the word. [From the publication]

DOI:
10.1075/vargreb.3.12zai
ISBN:
9789027259110
ISSN:
9789027267535
Related Publications:
On comparative study of deverbal nominalizations denoting process and result in Lithuanian and English / Solveiga Sušinskienė, Jolanta Vaskelienė. Valoda: nozīme un forma 2020, 11, p. 159-177.
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