... of the standard features +/−V and +/−N, then one would expect to find causative affixes that subcategorize for a +V root, and therefore attach to both adjectives and verbs but not to nouns, just ... into nouns or nominal projections I hope that this inquiry into the nature of verbs, adjectives, and nouns will lead (me) to a better understanding of the complexities of nominalizations and gerund ... predicate nouns and adjectives has considerable crosslinguistic support This proposal accounts in a unified way for differences between nonagentive verbs and other, thematically comparable lexical categories...