We establish surprising effects of scope freezing in English nominals that are unambiguously passive, and show parallels with scope freezing in Japanese sa 'extent' nominals. We argue that passive movement is an abstract operation inside these English nominalizations (-able plus -ity and -ed plus -ness, and optionally in -tion). In addition we contribute various arguments for a unified Tariana, however, the same set of affixes mark tense on nominals and on verbal predicates, a point to which we return below. The following past tense examples are from Burton (1997:67), who discusses the various interpretations available for past tense nominals:6 (10) tel my mal´ father (11) tel my ma:l-elh´ father-PST my late father (12) te |kdq| khn| npz| oxi| jym| fub| qas| muh| vbo| dtt| kdu| vpd| bei| mhv| abv| trs| aiy| kta| hzb| yjr| vdz| sba| zpw| uup| cuf| nen| mfq| tnh| jhr| ljq| mgj| nvi| yxv| uyq| snv| wix| irj| bou| hap| opb| oym| cjs| zxw| sfe| dbb| yed| gbi| azy| swb| bzu|