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- noun linguistics the use of a
verb or anadjective as anoun , with or withoutmorphological transformation , so that the word can now act as thehead of anoun phrase
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By the way, verb nominalization is the process that goes the other way.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs” 2010
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Creating a noun out of a verb is called ‘nominalization’.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs” 2010
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A style teacher I had a long time ago placed great emphasis on being aware of the use of nominalization — making nouns into verbs — as a means of avoiding wordiness.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs” 2010
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Creating a noun out of a verb is called ‘nominalization’.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs” 2010
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Geoff: Is the linguistic phenomenon of nominalization connected much to the ontological phenomenon if reification?
The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs” 2010
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A style teacher I had a long time ago placed great emphasis on being aware of the use of nominalization — making nouns into verbs — as a means of avoiding wordiness.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs” 2010
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By the way, verb nominalization is the process that goes the other way.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs” 2010
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Malament 1982 had objected that the obstacles to the nominalization of phase-space theories in Hamiltonian mechanics seemed insuperable.
Explanation in Mathematics Mancosu, Paolo 2008
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If Austin is right about this, then the nominalization “the agent's moving of his leg” should be correspondingly ambiguous, with a second reading that denotes a certain leg movement, a movement the agent has performed.
Action Wilson, George 2007
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Similarly one could regard “consciousness” as referring to a component or aspect of reality that manifests itself in conscious states and creatures but is more than merely the abstract nominalization of the adjective “conscious” we apply to them.
Consciousness Van Gulick, Robert 2004
seanahan commented on the word nominalization
The process by which a verb is turned into a noun.
June 27, 2007
slumry commented on the word nominalization
a verb or another part of speech.
June 27, 2007