Remarks on Nominalization: Background and motivation

Noam Chomsky

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Remarks on Nominalization: Background and motivation

Noam Chomsky

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In his introductory comments to this volume, Chomsky reviews the historical background surrounding the emergence of Remarks on Nominalization, the restrictive view of the syntax which it promoted, and, in that context, the need to separate syntactically predictable constructions, such as gerunds from less predictable formations, and specifically derived nominals, as described in Lees’ (1960) seminal study. It is also in that context that Chomsky reviews the emergence of the X’-scheme, offering, in particular, a contemporary perspective on its merits and drawbacks.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Nominalization
Subtitle of host publication	50 Years on from Chomsky’s Remarks
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	25-28
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9780198865544
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198865544.003.0002
State	Published - Jan 21 2021

Keywords

Derived nominals
Endocentricity vs. exocentricity
Explanatory adequacy
Gerunds
Interface conditions
Principles and parameters
Remarks on nominalization
Transformational grammar
X’-theory

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General Arts and Humanities
General Social Sciences

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