Nominalization: 50 Years on from Chomsky's Remarks
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Queen Mary University of London
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- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics : A - Linguistics
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- 1317
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- B - Edited book
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- Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
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- 9780198865544
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- 2020
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- We request that panellists consider three aspects of Borer’s contribution to this output: (i) entire edited collection, (ii) Editors’ Introduction, (iii) Borer’s own chapter ‘The V of de-verbal nominals: PROS and Cons’.
It is safe to say that no other single article has matched the enduring theoretical impact of Chomsky's (1970) Remarks on Nominalizations. 50 years after its publication, it remains subject to heated debates and is a source of significant theoretical insights which guide contemporary research. This has included the emergence of major grammatical frameworks (Lexical Functional Grammar; Distributed Morphology), the emergence of generative morphology, new phonological approaches, lexical semantics, and the modelling of phrase structure. In the past half century, linguistic theoretical tools have been substantially modified, and our typological perspective now includes dozens of languages that were yet to be studied in 1970. For the first time, this volume evaluates the contribution of RoN both in the context of present day research methods and theoretical modelling, and with greater typological breadth. We therefore request that panellists consider the overall contribution of the volume as a critical assessment, across some 15 linguistic systems (including indigenous languages), of the extent to which central theoretical premises originating with RoN still fundamentally hold their own. Both co-editors contributed equally to the selection of contributions, to the evaluation of contributions, and to production work.
The volume includes an in-depth introduction which not only summarizes the contributions, but also undertakes a critical theoretical review of the original claims in RoN and the major theoretical thinking influenced by them, to date. We therefore also request that the Editors’ Introduction be considered. Borer had the lead role in the writing of the introductory theoretical review.
Finally, we request that reviewers additionally consider Borer’s own chapter as part of the assessment.
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