Nominalization strategies in Barguzin Buryat
This paper investigates nominalization strategies in Barguzin Buryat. It examines different nominal and ver- bal properties of two types of nominalization: verbal nouns with the suffix -lga and nominalizations that are formed from participles (with the suffixes -a:ʃa, -han, -xa). I propose a hypothesis that the observed differences between the properties of the two types of nominalization are due to their different syntactic structures: while the -lga nominalization involves the VP-nP-DP structure, participial nominalizations involve TP-DP structures. I note that the syntactic approach to nominalization makes us expect that the languages of the world should also have a nominalization strategy where the third basic functional projection of the clausal spine - CP - would be nominalized. I show that this type of nominalization does exist and is also attested in Barguzin Buryat.