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The main aim of this paper is to provide an explanation accounting for the production of English derived nouns in -ee. It is argued that analyses based on the syntactic argument structure of the verbal base are unsatisfactory, and that the conditions for this derivational process must be searched for within semantics. The relevant semantic factors for the different sets of verbal bases are explored using a theory of lexical representation like RRG.

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This page is a summary of: Derived nominalizations in -ee: a Role and Reference Grammar based semantic analysis, English Language and Linguistics, May 2003, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s1360674303211059.
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