Nominalization and natural language ontology
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- dc.contributor.author Grimm, Scott
- dc.contributor.author McNally, Louise, 1965-
- dc.date.accessioned 2022-10-18T05:44:12Z
- dc.date.available 2022-10-18T05:44:12Z
- dc.date.issued 2022
- dc.description.abstract Nominalization (e.g., sleeping, that we slept, sleepiness) allows speakers to refer and ascribe properties to whatever sorts of entities clauses, verbs, or adjectives typically denote. Characterizing these relatively abstract entities has challenged semanticists and philosophers of language for over 50 years, thanks especially to Zeno Vendler’s early work. Vendler took different kinds of English nominalization constructions to support positing facts, propositions, and events as distinct ontological objects. However, his conclusions remain controversial. The research on nominalization and natural language ontology has never been brought together or put into perspective; in this article, we clarify the complex variety of subsequent ontological positions that build on Vendler’s work, identifying points of consensus and disagreement. We also reflect on the consequences and challenges of focusing on the English data and offer a glimpse of how the landscape might change with greater attention to nominalization in other languages.en
- dc.description.sponsorship We also thank Lauren Fonteyn, Zi Huang, Paul Portner, Alessandro Zucchi, and Barbara Partee for input directly related to this article, and acknowledge support from grant FFI2016-76045-P (AEI/MINEICO/FEDER, UE) and an ICREA Academia Award to L.M.en
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- dc.identifier.citation Grimm S, Mcnally L. Nominalization and natural language ontology. Annu Rev Linguist. 2022;8:257-77. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-linguistics-031120-020110
- dc.identifier.doi http://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-031120-020110
- dc.identifier.issn 2333-9691
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/54439
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher Annual Reviews Inc
- dc.relation.ispartof Annual Review of Linguistics. 2022;8:257-77.
- dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/FFI2016-76045-P
- dc.rights Copyright © 2022 Scott Grimm and Louise McNally. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See credit lines of images or other third-party material in this article for license information
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- dc.subject.keyword Nominalizationen
- dc.subject.keyword Natural language ontologyen
- dc.subject.keyword Eventsen
- dc.subject.keyword Factsen
- dc.subject.keyword Propositionsen
- dc.subject.keyword Abstract objectsen
- dc.title Nominalization and natural language ontology
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