The representation of events in non-tensed domains
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description: This thesis resembles the main part of my research between my PhD (2002) and this moment. I focussed on the study of verbal domains deprived of finiteness, non-finite or non-tensed domains. I include here any verbal form, or derived from a verb, which does not present any temporal inflection or personal agreement marker, but may present aspectual markers. This is something which characterises the infinitival domains, cf. to make vs. to have made, but which may charaterise equally certain deverbal nominals (for instance the Romanian supine nominal), and participial forms, as I show in the present thesis. The thesis itself contains 6 chapters, among which the final one presents conclusions, open questions and research perspectives. In each part, I present and discuss the results of the work resembled in the Annexes volume. After an introductory chapter, presenting the issues and problems, as well as the background, Chapter 2 is dedicated to the question of the categorization and of categorial change in the grammar. The absence of tense and personal agreement is indeed associated to categorial indeterminacy, which is a main characteristic of participial domains. I choosed to begin this presentation of my contribution to linguistic theory by the issue of lexical categories.The domains which I study are problematic for all lexicalist theory of categorization, because of the wide variety of mixed combinations of property they offer. I therefore argue for a flexible theory of categories, in a syntactic approach to word formation, where categorization is the result of dedicated functional levels, and ultimately to syntactic environment. The chapter proposes also a general theory of participles as truncated domains which contain a gap, and from which different domains, more or less reduced, can be built, having corresponding different structures and interpretations. Chapters 3 and 4 are dedicated to the issue of nominalizations, i.e. deverbal nominals such as construction or…
issued: 2026-05-07T19:04:19.431800
language: fr
modified: 2026-05-07T19:04:19.431804
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The representation of events in non-tensed domains
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