Abstract
This paper provides an account of the mixed verbo-nominal properties of the action nominalization construction in Hebrew and Arabic. Such an account is achieved by postulating an underlying representation in which a VP is the complement of an abstract nominal head, a nominalizer, and a derivation in which the verb is adjoined to the nominalizing morpheme to derive the action nominal that is the head of the construction. A central assumption of this analysis concerns the thematic properties, the argument structure, of the nominalizer and the way these interact with the overall thematic structure of action nominalizations. Finally, the article discusses the issue of lexicalism and develops arguments in favor of the non-lexicalist approach to action nominalizations developed in this work.
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