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3. NOMINAL COMPLEMENTATION AND ARGUMENT STRUCTURE<br />

0. As happens with result nominals, event nominals may pluralize (cf. [45]) (see van<br />

Hout 1991: 75 for Dutch; Brito and Oliveira 1997: 61 for Portuguese).<br />

(45) Os jornalistas estavam a assistir a várias destruições de cidades,<br />

quando chegaram as tropas.<br />

“The journalists were watching several destructions of towns, when<br />

the troops arrived” (Brito and Oliverira 1997: 61)<br />

1. Event nominals may be preceded by an indefinite determiner (cf. [46]) (see Brito<br />

and Oliveira 1997: 60 for Portuguese; Heyvaert 2000: 120, note 1, for English).<br />

(46) Os jornalistas estavam a assistir a uma destruição da ponte,<br />

cuando a bomba caiu.<br />

“The journalists were watching a/one destruction of the bridge,<br />

when the bomb fell” (Brito and Oliveira: 1997: 60)<br />

2. Event nominals do not obligatorily take internal arguments (cf. [47]) (Zubizarreta<br />

1987).<br />

(47) a. L’arrivée eut lieu à minuit.<br />

“The arrival took place at midnight”<br />

b. The execution was filmed by the TV-stations.<br />

3. Some event nominals can combine with an of-PP instead of a by-phrase (cf. [48]).<br />

(48) Ik heb alle uitvoeringen van Youri Egorov van het Schumannprogramma<br />

bijgewoond.<br />

“I have attended all of Youri Egorov’s performances of the<br />

Scumann program” (Van Hout 1991: 76)<br />

4. Result nouns can take internal arguments, and finally, in certain circumstances<br />

result nouns can combine with a by-phrase (cf. [49]).<br />

(49) A análise do texto pelo aluno enriquecem o conhecimento dos<br />

colegas.<br />

“The analysis of the text by the student enlarged the knowledge of<br />

the colleagues” (Brito and Oliveira 1997: 65)<br />

Therefore, for Sleeman and Brito (2010: 127) the difference between process nouns and<br />

result nouns is not an eventive one, but an aspectual one, and as a consequence, these two<br />

classes of nouns can behave similarly with respect to the projection of their arguments, as<br />

well as with respect to plurality and the choice of determiners.<br />

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