The rivalry of French -ment and -age from a diachronic perspective

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Contributors IX
4. Introduction 1
5. Nominals don’t provide criteria of identity 9
6. Nominalization in context – conflicting readings and predicate transfer 25
7. A cognitive-functional perspective on deverbal nominalization in English. Descriptive findings and theoretical ramifications 51
8. A new account of possessors and event nominals in Hungarian 83
9. The semantics of eventive suffixes in French 109
10. Action nominals inside: lexical-semantic issues 141
11. Syntactic and semantic constraints on the formation and interpretation of -ung-nouns 169
12. The rivalry of French -ment and -age from a diachronic perspective 215
13. Backmatter 245