Nominalizations: A cognitive perspective

Abstract

The paper makes an attempt at interpreting nominalization constructions from a cognitive perspective. We are focusing solely on constructions which present a new model of government with regard to the initial sentence proposition: the transformation V+Acc provides the following nominalizations N(v) + na + Acc, N(v) + k + Dat, N(v) + nad + Inst, N(v) + o + Loc in Russian. In Serbian a similar result is observed and the attention is paid to the following transformational relationship: V + Gen ? N(v) + od + Gen.