Lexical Borrowing Targets Spans

In this study, I revisit the claim that nominals denoting complex events must derive from discernible verbal stems and be headed by an overt nominalizer. show Turkish has a set of nominals, crucially foreign origin, which provides counter-evidence to both claims. From perspective grammar, they are morphologically noncompositional, manifesting neither detectable basis nor nominalizer although categorically event nominals. Since (zero-)derived Turkic origin do not allow argument structure, puzzling makeup underived in question boils down their loan word nature. behavior is different derived as well gerundive important ways. defective nominalizations lacking nP representation. After reviewing previous accounts these consider three syntactic approaches derivation, differ theoretical assumptions only granularity, conclude Spanning approach Bye Svenonius us with conceptually superior account.