Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Nominals don't provide criteria of identity -- Nominalization in context - conflicting readings and predicate transfer -- A cognitive-functional perspective on deverbal nominalization in English. Descriptive findings and theoretical ramifications -- A new account of possessors and event nominals in Hungarian -- The semantics of eventive suffixes in French -- Action nominals inside: lexical-semantic issues -- Syntactic and semantic constraints on the formation and interpretation of -ung-nouns -- The rivalry of French -ment and -age from a diachronic perspective -- Backmatter