VP-nominalization and the Final-over-Final Condition
- The Final-over-Final Condition has emerged as a robust and explanatory generalization for a wide range of phenomena (Biberauer, Holmberg, and Roberts 2014, Sheehan et al. 2017). In this article, we argue that it also holds in another domain, nominalization. In languages that show overt nominalization of VPs, one word order is routinely unattested, namely, a head-initial VP with a suffixal nominalizer. This typological gap can be accounted for by the Final-over-Final Condition, if we allow it to hold within mixed extended projections. This view also makes correct predictions about agentive nominalizations and nominalized serial verb constructions.
| Author details: | Johannes HeinORCiD, Andrew Murphy |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00407 |
| ISSN: | 0024-3892 |
| ISSN: | 1530-9150 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Linguistic inquiry |
| Publisher: | MIT Press |
| Place of publishing: | Cambridge |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2022/04/28 |
| Publication year: | 2022 |
| Release date: | 2023/07/14 |
| Tag: | Final-over-Final Condition; extended projections; nominalization; order; serial verb constructions; syntax; word |
| Volume: | 53 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Number of pages: | 34 |
| First page: | 337 |
| Last Page: | 370 |
| Funding institution: | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation); [317633480 - SFB 1287] |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
| DDC classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access / Hybrid Open-Access |
