2011
Volume 23 – Issue 1 – 2011
Guest editors Bernard Comrie & Giuliana Fiorentino
Nouns and Nominalizations Cross-linguistically
Bernard Comrie & Giuliana Fiorentino
Introduction
Bernard Comrie
Action nominals between verbs and nouns
Pamela Munro
On the avoidance of abstract nominalizations
Giuliana Fiorentino
Action nouns between speech and writing: The case of Italian
John A. Hawkins
A processing approach to the typology of Noun Phrases
Johanna Mattissen
Complexity in nouns
Ruth Berman & Batia Seroussi
Derived nouns in Modern Hebrew: Structural and psycholinguistic perspectives
Volume 23 – Issue 2 – 2011
Antonio Baroni
Alphabetic vs. non-alphabetic writing: Linguistic fit and natural tendencies
Chiara Finocchiaro, F.-Xavier Alario, Niels O. Schiller, Albert Costa, Michele Miozzo & Alfonso Caramazza
Gender congruency goes Europe: A cross-linguistic study of the gender congruency effect in several Romance and Germanic languages
Guest editors Lisa Cheng, Denis Delfitto and Lutz Marten
The structure and interpretation of Nouns and Noun Phrases (part I)
Lisa Cheng, Denis Delfitto and Lutz Marten
Introduction
Bianca Basciano, Nancy Kula, Chiara Melloni
Modes of compounding in Bantu, Romance and Chinese
Paola Crisma, Lutz Marten & Rint Sybesma
The point of Bantu, Chinese and Romance nominal classification
Denis Delfitto, Gaetano Fiorin & Nancy Kula
Syntactic gradients in compounding: Bemba associative nominals vs. Italian prepositional and deverbal compounds
Articles review
Giorgio Graffi
Parts of speech and syntactic categories. ‘Cognition’ vs. ‘grammar’? A review-article of Rauh Lisa 2010. Syntactic Categories. Their Identification and Description in Linguistic Theories. Oxford, O.U.P.)
Emanuela Sanfelici
Syntax and Morphology: what can compounds tell us? A review-article of Scalise Sergio & Irene Vogel 2010. Cross-Disciplinary Issues in Compounding. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company)