Actionhaving

Actionhaving is a term used in linguistic typology to describe a proposed kind of event-related nominalization in which an action or event is presented as something possessed or connected to a participant. The concept focuses on how a verb’s event is integrated into a noun-like form and how that event bears relation to agents, patients, or other participants. It is related to standard nominalizations and participial constructions but is intended to isolate a specific sense of possession or affiliation with an action.

In description, actionhaving-like forms are thought to be realized by a nominal head derived from a verb, often accompanied by modifiers or a participial clause that signals possession, involvement, or control of the action by a participant. An illustrative but schematic example is the phrase structure where a nominalized action is followed by a clause indicating the actor responsible for the action, such as a construction where “the actionhaving completed by the team” creates a link between the event and the agent. The exact morphosyntax can vary across languages and theoretical frameworks.

Cross-linguistically, actionhaving is discussed as a potential pattern in which languages encode event structure within noun phrases by combining event nominalization with possessive or aspectual cues. Some analyses treat it as a subtype of event nouns or as a mechanism for binding the semantics of an action to the surrounding clause.

Reception and status: Actionhaving remains a niche term used mainly in introductory overviews of nominalization and event structure. It has limited attestation in mainstream grammars and is primarily of theoretical interest for illustrating how actions can be integrated into noun phrases.