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:
- It can be a Lexical Operation, such as addition of a Suffix such as “-ure” or “-ing”.
- It can be a Grammatical Operation, such the combination into a Nominal Group.
- 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”.
- …
- Verb:
- 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.
- 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".
- (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)
- Lexical nominalization: Some verbs and adjectives can be used directly as nouns, such as change, good, murder, and use. Others require a suffix: