MODERN GREEK DEVERBAL NOMINALS - AN LMT APPROACH

This paper argues that there are Modern Greek (MG) deverbal nominal pr edicates which take syntactic arguments. A mechanism for the derivatio n of these nominals requiring the existence of an 'internal' (I-rl) ar gument is proposed which has broader coverage than the mechanism propo sed in Grimshaw (1990). A small set of simple, unification-based opera tions is employed to model the relation between the argument structure of verb predicates and that of the corresponding deverbal nominals wi th an 'eventive' reading. The Lexical Mapping Theory of LFG (LMT) is t he theoretical framework of the present discussion.