Nominalization Operation

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A Nominalization Operation is a Linguistic Operation that converts a Verb or an Adjective into a Nominalized Noun.

  • Context:
  • Example(s):
    • Verb:
      • fail” ⇒ "failure”.
      • care” ⇒ "careless”.
      • fail” ⇒ "failure”.
      • check” ⇒ "checking”.
      • murder” ⇒ "murder”.
      • organize” ⇒ "organisation”.
      • refuse” ⇒ "refusal”, e.g. ⇒ "Waldo's [refusal] to help".
    • Adjective:
      • rich” =>"rich”, e.g. “rich people” ⇒ "The [rich]".
      • blue” ⇒ "blue”, e.g. “He is dressed in blue clothing” ⇒ "He is dressed in blue".
    • Verb Phrase:
      • based out of Redmond” ⇒ "Redmond-based”.
  • Counter-Example(s):
  • See: Suffix, Nominal Group.


References

2009

  • http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nominalization
    • 1. (linguistics) the use of a verb or an adjective as a noun, with or without morphological transformation, so that the word can now act as the head of a noun phrase.
  • (Wikipedia, 2009) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominalization
    • In linguistics, nominalization refers to the use of a verb or an adjective as a noun, with or without morphological transformation, so that the word can now act as the head of a noun phrase.
    • Nominalization happens in languages around the world. Some languages allow verbs to be used as nouns, while others require some form of morphological transformation. English has cases of both.
  • (Wikipedia, 2009) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominalization#Grammatical_nominalization
    • Grammatical nominalization: This is process by which a grammatical expression is turned into a nominal group, also known more loosely as a noun phrase. An example is the change from "The experiment involved combining the two chemicals" to "The experiment involved the combining of the two chemicals".
      • A nominal form is sometime preferable to its corresponding sentence with a relative clause.
  • (Wikipedia, 2009) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominalization#Lexical_nominalization
    • Lexical nominalization: Some verbs and adjectives can be used directly as nouns, such as change, good, murder, and use. Others require a suffix:
      • applicability (from applicable)
      • carelessness (from careless)