nominalisation
Sign in to saveIn linguistics, nominalization or nominalisation, also known as nouning, is the use of a word that is not a noun (e.g., a verb, an adjective or an adverb) as a noun, or as the head of a noun phrase. This change in functional category can occur through morphological transformation, but it does not always. Nominalization can refer, for instance, to the of producing a noun from another part of speech by adding a derivational affix (e.g., the noun "legalization" from the verb "legalize"), but it can also refer to the complex noun that is formed as a result.
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- In various languages
- English nominalization
- Derivational morphology and nominalization
- Zero-derivation nominalization
- Stress- and pronunciation-dependent nominalization
- Other Indo-European languages
- Afro-Asiatic languages
- Chinese
- Vietnamese
- Tibeto-Burman
- Japanese
- Dual nature of syntactic nominalization
- Nominal and verbal properties in Japanese
- Hawaiian
- Zero-derivation in other languages
- Syntactic analyses
- Introduction to syntactic analyses
- Emergence of X'-scheme – Chomsky (1965)
- Chomsky and nominalization
- Derived and gerundive nominals
- Argument structure analysis – Grimshaw (1994)
- Internal and external arguments
- Argument structure theory
- Nominalization-argument structure analysis
- Types of events
- Examples
- Complex versus simple event nominals
- Syntactic representation – Grimshaw (1994)
- Subcategorization frames
- Examination subcategorization frames
- Writer subcategorization frames
- Structural model analysis – Alexiadou (2001)
- Analysis overview
- Process and result nouns
- More on deverbal nominalization
- See also
- Notes
- References
In linguistics, nominalization or nominalisation, also known as nouning, is the use of a word that is not a noun (e.g., a verb, an adjective or an adverb) as a noun, or as the head of a noun phrase. This change in functional category can occur through morphological transformation, but it does not always. Nominalization can refer, for instance, to the of producing a noun from another part of speech by adding a derivational affix (e.g., the noun "legalization" from the verb "legalize"), but it can also refer to the complex noun that is formed as a result.
Some languages simply allow verbs to be used as nouns without inflectional difference (conversion or zero derivation), while others require some form of morphological transformation. English has cases of both.