Nominalization as an "interpersonally-driven" system

• Autores: Liesbet Heyvaert
• Localización: Functions of language, ISSN 0929-998X, Vol. 8, Nº 2, 2001 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Aspects of interpersonal grammar: Grounding, modality, and evidentiality), págs. 283-324
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper analyzes different types of deverbal -er nominals and factive nominalizations and argues that they can only be fully described and gener- alized across if, in addition to their ideational properties, the interpersonal categories which they realize are also considered. It is shown that interpersonal functions such as Subject/person deixis, finite/non-finite grounding and the Mood-relation between them are not exclusively clausal categories, but that they are equally operative at word level and in the nominal group. In factive and -er nominalizations, they set us on the track of the systems¿ basic grammatico-semantic characteristics: the link which deverbal -er nominalizations establish between an entity and a process turns out to be strikingly similar to that realized by the Subject and the Finite at clause level; the analysis of the internal, interpersonal properties of that-factives, the fact that-constructions and gerundive factives confirms their downranked or ¿nominal¿ nature and enables us to define factivity more accurately.