Uth, Melanie2008-06-062016-03-312008-06-062016-03-312008312759894http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:93-opus-35566http://elib.uni-stuttgart.de/handle/11682/5724http://dx.doi.org/10.18419/opus-5707In this paper I will investigate process and result nominals in -age and –ment, which are derived from verbs participating in the causative/anti-causative-alternation (henceforth labelled “alternating verbs”). First of all, it will be empirically shown that –mentnominals have both the anti-causative reading and the resultant state reading, whereas process nominals in –age focus on the causing process and result nominals in –age only appear in applicative constructions. Ehrich & Rapp (2000) assume that the causative eventive chain consists of a causing process and a change-of-state event that takes the resultant state as its situational argument. Following that, I will conclude from the empirical evidence that –ment nominalizes the change-of-state event, while –age nominalizes the causing process. Furthermore, I will model the relevant –age- and –mentnominals in terms of Lieber’s (2004) conceptual structures and discuss the question whether we may assume that –ment and –age introduce different aspectual operators.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessLinguistik400bookPart2015-12-12