Nominalisierungen und Argumentvererbung im Deutschen und Ungarischen

The study sets out to contribute to the ongoing discussion on the question whether or not the domain of morphology is a module in its own right. A new conceptual approach has been developed specifically for the purpose. On the foundation of a comparison between German nouns ending in -er and comparable Hungarian derivates ending in -ó/-ö, the author argues that the derivation restrictions on these word-formation patterns and the inheritance of the arguments underlying their bases are rooted in the conceptual structure. Of crucial importance in this connection is the thematic structure of the bases, conceived of here as the interface ('mediator') between grammatical and conceptual structure.