ABSTRACT
Event-denoting nouns (ENDs) with no verbal counterpart, such as cirurgia (‘surgery’) and terremoto (‘earthquake’), constitute a class, which is usually set aside from the literature on nouns denoting events, in contrast to nominalizations. In this paper, after arguing linguistically that EDNs do denote events, we aim at providing a structural explanation on this property, based on Distributed Morphology framework (Halle & Marantz, 1993Halle, M., & Marantz, A. (2020). A Morfologia Distribuída e as peças da flexão. Tradução Beatriz Pires Senanta & Maurício Resende. Editora da UFPR. (Distributed Morphology and the pieces of inflection, 1993).). We claim that there are two different structures denoting events and that EDNs raise important questions to the semantic of events of natural language.
Keywords:
nominalization; distributed morphology; Event Semantics