Advances in Role and Reference Grammar

386 MARY L. NUNES explication of the pre-nominal genitive NP. Rather, it is the notion of topic which defines the function of th ...

ARGUMENT LINKING IN DERIVED NOMINALS 387 d. What did Gray destroy (at the White House) yesterday? e. Yesterday, who destroyed th ...

388 MARY L. NUNES definitions put forward in configurational analyses. Neither does it include LFG-like semantically-unrestricte ...

ARGUMENT LINKING IN DERIVED NOMINALS 389 but a sufficiently representative number of nominals derived from each verb class to ma ...

390 MARY L. NUNES (16) a. The king supplied the rebelsU. loc with weapons'th. b. the (king's) supplying of the rebelsU. loc with ...

ARGUMENT LINKING IN DERIVED NOMINALS 391 this of does not mark an argument of the V/vN, but has an adjunct — i.e. predicative — ...

(^392) MARY L. NUNES e. the reflections of colored lights f. the arrangements of flowers. Ambiguity between a compositional and ...

ARGUMENT LINKING IN DERIVED NOMINALS 393 2.3.2 Direct argument linking in the vNP: looking at the data In 2.2.2, it was noted th ...

394 MARY L. NUNES (25) a. * the invention [of EdisonCL.A] b. the invention [of the light bulbCL-U] c. *the destruction [of the e ...

ARGUMENT LINKING IN DERIVED NOMINALS 395 (28) ACTOR UNDERGOER Agent Effector Experiencer Locative Theme Patient a. Suex minuteSy ...

(^396) MARY L. NUNES dative vNs having access to clausally-employed case markers (cf. the discus­ sion of clausal case-markers i ...

ARGUMENT LINKING IN DERIVED NOMINALS 397 2.3.2.3 State-verb nominalizations The final class of nominals whose verb sources are c ...

398 MARY L. NUNES (34) a. The love Jess has for that puppy is unshakable. b. The desire that soldier has for a homecooked meal i ...

ARGUMENT LINKING IN DERIVED NOMINALS 399 (37) #The love of the child is unshakable.^21 b. The parents' love of the child is unsh ...

400 MARY L. NUNES (39) Single-argument Activities a. the intervention [of the officialCL_A] b. the performance [of the typewrite ...

ARGUMENT LINKING IN DERIVED NOMINALS 401 construction, Sara King can only be interpreted as the designer of the designs, the des ...

402 MARY L. NUNES into parts or basic principles so as to determine the nature of the whole." In this telic sense, analyze takes ...

ARGUMENT LINKING IN DERIVED NOMINALS 403 Test 4: Jeri finished analyzing the data. OK if a telic end point — determining the nat ...

404 MARY L. NUNES diction only with vNs derived from single argument activities (and plural result vNs derived from iteratively- ...

ARGUMENT LINKING IN DERIVED NOMINALS 405 Finally, in (46d), the interpretation of the direct argument of the plural result vN, i ...