Nominalizing reduplication in American Sign Language (ASL) is an ambiguous process that can derive both concrete object‐ and result‐denoting nominals. The properties of this nominalization process, including this ambiguity, are accounted for here by appealing to the discrete and surface transparent morphology that the language uses to encode components of event (Wilbur 2003,2010) and argument (Benedicto & Brentari 2004) structure. Nominalizing reduplication is shown to be a process that nominalizes (and reduplicates) only the low portion of verbal structure responsible for encoding the event result (VP_res). Direct nominalization of this VP_res constituent yields nominals with result‐denoting interpretations. Concrete object‐denoting interpretations may arise when the verbal structure contains an argument classifier, which is evident in the handshape of the verbal predicate. In such cases, the nominal argument introduced by the classifier serves as the input to (reduced) relative clause formation, yielding a concrete object‐denoting interpretation. The interpretive ambiguity is thus reduced to ambiguity in the syntactic structure underlying the derived nominal. This approach falls in line with longstanding structural approaches to nominalization and more recent proposals regarding processes of reduplication (Inkelas & Zoll 2005).

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所见即所得：美国手语中名词化重复的表面透明度和歧义性

在美国手语（ASL）中名词化重复是一个模棱两可的过程，可以得出具体的对象和结果表示的名词。这种标称化过程的特性（包括这种歧义）在这里通过吸引离散的和表面透明的形态来解决，该形态用于语言对事件（Wilbur 2003,2010）和自变量（Benedicto＆Brentari 2004）的组成部分进行编码。标称重复化被证明是一个仅标称（和重复化）负责对事件结果进行编码（VP _res）的言语结构的较低部分的过程。该VP _res的直接标称成分会产生带有结果表示解释的标称。当言语结构包含参数分类符时，可能会出现具体的表示对象的解释，这在言语谓词的手形中就很明显。在这种情况下，分类器引入的名义参数用作（减少的）相对从句形成的输入，从而产生具体的对象表示解释。这样，解释性歧义就被简化为派生名词所依据的句法结构中的歧义。这种方法与长期的名词化结构方法以及有关重复过程的最新提议相一致（Inkelas＆Zoll 2005）。