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The seminar will examine the productive derivational patterns of English that give rise to deverbal event nominals (cf. acquisition, prosecution). These patterns are semantically complex in that they often extend their original meaning to secondary readings. For instance, in addition to referring to an event itself (acquisition of the painting = event), acquisition can refer to an object (valuable acquisition). The primary event reading can furthermore focus on the different aspects of the event, referring to the process or result as well as to the event itself. Understanding such patterns therefore entails the assignment of representations to morphological structures that are capable of supporting the range of such interpretations as well as identifying the processes by which the secondary readings arise. |
