The dynamic implementation of non-overt arguments in nominalizations

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  • Roberto Gomes Camacho UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista/São José do Rio Preto - SP

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Nominalization, Embedded Constructions, Valency, Overt Argument, Non-Overt Argument,

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Valency is an inherent property of nominalizations representing higher-order entities, and as such it should be included in their underlying representation. On the basis of this assumption, I postulate that cases of non-overt arguments, which are very common in Brazilian Portuguese and in many other languages of the world, should be considered a special type of valency realization. This paper aims to give empirical support to this postulate by showing that non-overt arguments are both semantically and pragmatically motivated. The semantic and pragmatic motivations for non-overt arguments may be accounted for by the dynamic implementation of the FDG model. I argue that the way valency is realized by means of non-overt arguments suggests a strong parallelism between nominalizations and other types of non-finite embedded constructions – like infinitival and participial ones. By providing empirical evidence for this parallelism I arrive at the conclusion that there are at least three kinds of non-finite embedded constructions, rather than only two, as suggested by Dik (1997).

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19/05/2009

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CAMACHO, R. G. The dynamic implementation of non-overt arguments in nominalizations. ALFA: Revista de Linguística, São Paulo, v. 51, n. 2, 2009. Disponível em: https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/alfa/article/view/1445. Acesso em: 28 mar. 2024.

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