TY - BOOK ID - 77939882 TI - Cross-linguistic investigations of nominalization patterns PY - 2014 SN - 9027270708 9789027270702 1306409934 9781306409933 9789027255938 9027255938 PB - Amsterdam Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company DB - UniCat KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Nominals (Grammar) KW - Noun-equivalents (Grammar) KW - Substantives (Grammar) KW - Nominals. KW - Noun phrase KW - Linguistics KW - Language and languages KW - Foreign languages KW - Languages KW - Anthropology KW - Communication KW - Ethnology KW - Information theory KW - Meaning (Psychology) KW - Philology KW - Linguistic science KW - Science of language KW - Nominals KW - Linguistics. KW - Language and languages. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77939882 AB - Patterns of nominalization in Blackfoot are surveyed. It is demonstrated that two of these patterns behave like nouns while two others only partially behave like nouns. Degrees of nominality are analyzed within the assumption that there is a universal syntactic spine, a hierarchically organized set of categories, which are not intrinsically specified for nominality or verbality. They are category-neutral. Different nominalization patterns (and degrees of nominality) reduce to different ways of introducing the nominalizer: it may be introduced by a dedicated morphological marker (nominalization ER -