Eventive deverbative nouns inherit the argument structure of the input verb. In Hungarian they are formed by virtue of the noun-forming suffix-ás/és. Noun phrases headed by an eventive nominal are formed according to the same principles as other Hungarian noun phrases, chief among them being the fact that noun heads regularly appear at the end of the noun phrase. Their structure is dictated primarily by the Hungarian possessive construction, which expresses the relation between the possessor and the possessed. Oblique arguments of the input verb, as well as the input subject of transitive verbs, are adjectivized by virtue of the adjectivizing suffix-i or, more often, the adjectivizing word való, which is originally a participle of the verb van “be”. In Slovenian, the noun-forming suffix-je is by far the most productive way of forming event nominals, and is easily comparable to the Hungarian suffix-ás/és. In Slovenian, input arguments are most often expressed in the form of left and right adjuncts, and the genitive case plays a central role.
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