Abstract
Abstract Since Chomsky (1970) proposed the lexicalist hypothesis of nominalization, it has been widely assumed that derived nominals are formed in the lexicon and introduced into the syntactic structure under the category N, rather than formed by some syntactic movement operations. There appears to be good empirical reason to adopt the lexicalist hypothesis, since derived nominals have a couple of idiosyncratic properties that are lacking in the associated verbs and that are not expected if derived nominals are formed from verbs in the syntactic component.
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