Open AccessNominaler, nominaliseringer og semantisk kompleksitet
Author(s) -
Torben Thrane
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
hermes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.759
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1903-1785
pISSN - 0904-1699
DOI - 10.7146/hjlcb.v11i21.25476
Subject(s) - nominalization , computer science , interpretation (philosophy) , linguistics , semantic interpretation , realization (probability) , sentence , natural language processing , event (particle physics) , property (philosophy) , abstraction , utterance , semantic property , artificial intelligence , noun , mathematics , philosophy , programming language , epistemology , statistics , physics , quantum mechanics
It is a fundamental semantic property of all kinds of deverbal nominalizations that they may be used to talk about situations as if they were entities. In cases where a systematic morphological nominalization is at hand it becomes the name of a situation type, an abstraction from historical situations whose participants are ‘present’ only in a manner comparable to unbound variables in a logical formula. Such nominalizations are regarded as semantically saturated since they do not require syntactic realization of any of its arguments, nor can they be assigned an unambiguous event structure. This makes them semantically complex predicates the interpretation of which in actual utterance situations depends on both contextual and situational information.