@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00027979,
 author = {Nimura, Shinichi},
 journal = {IVY},
 month = {Oct},
 note = {The main purpose of this paper is to investigate how process nominals are derived. It is well known that they behave just like verbs in certain respects.  (1) a. The examination of the students will take several hours. b. The destruction of the warehouse with a wrecking ball was frightening to watch. c. the doctor's examination of the patient while looking out the window. As the examples in (1) illustrate, process nominals take arguments, and they also cooccur with some adjuncts. Then an immediate question arises as to why these are observed. Recently several researchers (e.g. Fu, Roeper and Borer (1995)) suggest that such nominals are formed in the syntax and that their syntactic derivation is responsible for their verbal properties. In this paper, however, I argue against the idea that process nominals are formed in the syntax. It is shown that their syntactic derivation faces serious empirical and conceptual problems. Alternatively, based on the analysis proposed by Grimshaw (1990), I show that process nominals are formed in the lexicon through a word formation process which is assumed and argued for in this paper. Specifically, adapting the relativized "head" in morphology advocated by Di Sciullo and Williams (1987) and Di Sciullo (1992), I propose a new analysis, under which argument inheritance partially occurs in process nominalization. The present analysis can provide a proper account for not only the argument­taking property of process nominals but also their compatibility with some adjuncts. It is shown that their verbal properties are due to the fact that they have their own argument structure, which includes the Event argument. This will indicate that the theory of argument structure suffices to capture the verb-like properties which are observed in process nominals. This paper thus suggests that the lexical derivation is superior to the syntactic one in terms of process nominalization., This paper is a revised version of the paper read at the 51st General Meeting of the English Literary Society of Japan, Chubu, held at Toyama University.},
 pages = {61--88},
 title = {On the Derivation of Process Nominals},
 volume = {33},
 year = {2000}
}