Linguistics Graduate Students Association

Putting our heads together: Icelandic deverbal event nouns and allosemy Grimshaw (1990) showed that when an event noun is derived from a verb, it is systematically ambiguous. In the “Complex Event Nominal” (CEN), eyðilegging 'destruction' refers to an event and inherits argument structure from the verb (as in eyðilegging borgarinnar var hræðilegur atburður 'the destruction of the town was … Read More