nominalization
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the use of a word, which is not a noun, as a noun, or as the head of a noun phrase, with or without morphological transformation (e.g., the noun legalization from the verb legalize)
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nominalization
In the passage from 2008, the terms action and cooperation belong to a class of words usually known as ‘nominalizations’, or ‘derived abstract nouns’
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7 years, 3 months ago
What do nominalizations do, that the Reports should use them with such insistence? They take ‘actions and processes’ and turn them into ‘abstract objects’
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7 years, 3 months ago
Buried verbs, which I was taught are called nominalizations, are turning a verb into a noun for kind of BS-y reasons.
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7 years, 2 months ago