ON THE - AS SUFFIX: WORD FORMATION IN THE SYNTAX?

In this paper I discuss Kenesei's (2005) syntactic derivational approach to - As complex event nominals in Hungarian,and I compare it with previous lexicalist analyses. I demonstrate that the facts that, according to Kenesei, call for asyntactic analysis (e.g.,binding and control phenomena, anti-agreement, negation, and aspect) can be captured in an appropriately developed lexicalist framework with at least the same degree of efficiency, consistency and in a sufficiently principled manner. I outline the most important aspects of such an analysis in the framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar. I also point out that there are additional considerations which supporta lexical treatment