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Nominalization

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…

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Nominalization

Nodes75
Edges74
Triples87
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.026667
Components1

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related to References · 37
Nominalization → Benri, Bin Makhashen, Brill, Cambridge University Press, Chicago, Chicago Press, Colomb, Contributions, Ed, Endangered, Gregory, Huddleston, In Pullum, In Wetzels, ISBN, Japanese, Joseph, Khaled Awadh, Kolln, Leiden
related to Other Indo-European languages · 10
Nominalization → Deutsch, English, For, German, Latin, Many Indo-European, Other, Portuguese, Romance, Spanish
related to Introduction to syntactic analyses · 9
Nominalization → An, AS, Both, In, Noam Chomsky's, Remarks, Such, The, VP
related to Vietnamese · 6
Nominalization → Cái, In Vietnamese, Kieu, Other, Sự, The
related to English nominalization · 5
Nominalization → English, In, The, This, Two
related to Chomsky and nominalization · 4
Nominalization → Chomsky's, In, Lexicalist, Remarks
related to Japanese · 2
Nominalization → In Old Japanese, Japanese
related to Tibeto-Burman · 2
Nominalization → In Bodic, Tibeto-Burman
is a · 1
Nominalization → natural part of language

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argument nominals structure syntactic nominal verb noun arguments nouns english also verbs take lexical complex languages word analysis process two

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Nominalizationis anatural part of language0.90text
の noinstance ofvia several particles0.80text
もの monoinstance ofvia several particles0.80text
こと kotoinstance ofvia several particles0.80text
gerunds from less predictable formationsinstance ofas well as the need to separate syntactically-predictable constructions0.80text
specifically-derived nominals.In the current literatureinstance ofas well as the need to separate syntactically-predictable constructions0.80text
researchers seem to take one of two stances when proposing a syntactic analysis of nominalizationinstance ofas well as the need to separate syntactically-predictable constructions0.80text
-ationinstance ofin English they can be formed with many different affixes0.80text
-mentinstance ofin English they can be formed with many different affixes0.80text
-alinstance ofin English they can be formed with many different affixes0.80text
and -ureinstance ofin English they can be formed with many different affixes0.80text
Aspect Phraseinstance ofproposes that the functional structure of process nominals is much like that of verbs by including verb-like projections0.80text

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