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In this paper, I examine the set of agentive nominals and argue that, in spite of their heterogenous behavior, we can find generalizations by characterizing their semantic properties in terms of the stage-level and individual -level distinction. This parallel with the domain of predicates provides a useful semantic classification of the class of agentive nouns and explains a range of syntactic phenomena as well as issues of semantic interpretation.
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Busa, F. (1999). The Semantics of Event-Based Nominals. In: Saint-Dizier, P. (eds) Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in Lexical Knowledge Bases. Text, Speech and Language Technology, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2746-4_12
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