This volume explores the progress of cross-linguistic research into the
structure of complex nominals since the publication of Chomsky's
'Remarks on Nominalization' in 1970. In the last 50 years of research
into the division of labour between the mental lexicon and syntax, the
specific properties of nominalized structures have remained a
particularly central question. The chapters in this volume take stock of
developments in this area and offer new perspectives on a range of
issues, including the representation of morphological complexity in the
syntax, the correlation of nominal affixes with different types of
nominalizations, and the modelling of non-compositional meaning within
syntactic approaches to word formation. Crucially, the contributors base
their analyses on data from typologically diverse languages, such as
Archi, Greek, Hiaki, Icelandic, Mebengokre, Turkish, and Udmurt, and
explore the question of whether, cross-linguistically, nominalizations
have a uniform core
to their structure that can be syntactically described.