Regarding this denotative distinction, several linguistic criteria have been proposed in order to identify each of these denotations, mostly for English, although there are some proposals for Spanish (Picallo 1999), French, Greek, Russian, andPolish (Alexiadou 2001) (see Table 2 in Section 4.1).
authors differ on the argument-taking capacity of deverbal nominalizations: Some linguists maintain that only event deverbal nominalizations can take arguments (Zubizarreta 1987;Grimshaw 1990), whereas others consider that both event and result nominalizations can take arguments (Pustejovsky 1995;Picallo 1999;Alexiadou 2001).