An Empirical Investigation into The Nature and Degree of Nominality

你的项目总结：我建议的研究重点是名义的性质和程度。虽然人们普遍认为名词和动词是两个独立的词类，但由于不同的应用标准不一致地混合了词法、句法和语义，这种区别被证明是不令人满意的。例如，一个问题是，诸如事件和宾语之类的语义区别是不可靠的，例如，名词fire的行为像动词性名词一样，但这种意义不是从动词继承而来的。可以说，概念语法隐喻对名词化的广泛领域提供了一些洞察，然而，有研究表明，概念语法隐喻并不能解释所有复杂的名词化。因此，本研究建议从经验上确定名词性的性质和程度如何被评估，以及在多大程度上语法隐喻能够解释名词性表达的意义。

A Summary of your project: My proposed research focuses on the nature and degree of nominality. While it is widely accepted that nouns and verbs constitute two separate word classes, this distinction has been shown to be unsatisfactory due to variably applied criteria which inconsistently mix morphology, syntax and semantics. For example, one problem is that semantic distinctions such as event vs object are not reliable, e.g. the noun fire behaves verbally, like a deverbal noun, but this meaning is not inherited from a verb. It can be said that the concept Grammatical Metaphor (GM) has provided some insight into the broad area of nominalization, however, it has been shown that GM does not account for all complex nominals. Therefore, this research proposes to determine empirically how the nature and degree of nominality can be evaluated, as well as evaluate the extent to which GM can account for the meanings of nominal expressions.