The functional structure of accomplishment event and result nominalizations

Abstract

This paper tries to make a contribution to the analysis of accomplishment deverbal event and result nominalizations from a Distributed Morphology (DM) point of view. It assumes that there must be a relation between morphological complexity and functional projection that is reflected in each of these structures, and it also assumes that the existence of these nominalizations emerges from an undeniable relation between the syntactic component and the world knowledge. This paper accounts for previous developments that were made in the DM framework and supports the idea that nominalizations must contain the vP from which they are formed and that it will contain different flavours of v° (Harley and Noyer 2000, Harley 2000, and others). This will allow us to recognize different aspectual classes and it will allow us to explain the existent relationship between nominalizations and the verb from which they were formed.