Categorization and Category Change

Gianina Iordachioaia is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Collaborative Research Center 732, Incremental Specification in Context, at the University of Stuttgart. She received a PhD from the University of Tubingen in 2009. Her current work concerns the morphology-syntax and the syntax-semantics interface of nominalizations derived from verbs and adjectives. Isabelle Roy is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University Paris 8 and holds a Chaire d'Excellence in First Language Acquisition. She received her PhD from the University of Southern California in 2006. She is the author of Nonverbal Predication (Oxford University Press, 2013) and the co-editor of the Recherches Linguistiques de Vincennes 45 issue on nominalizations. Kaori Takamine is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. In 2010, she received a PhD from the University of Tromso with a thesis entitled "The Postpositional hierarchy and its mapping to clause structure in Japanese." Her current research includes nominal structure, deixis, adpositions, and adverbials.