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nominalization (en)

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)

Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace & Bryan A. Garner Talk Language and Writing
by Bryan A. Garner, David Foster Wallace, L.W. Montgomery

Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace & Bryan A. Garner Talk Language and Writing
by Bryan A. Garner, David Foster Wallace, L.W. Montgomery

Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace & Bryan A. Garner Talk Language and Writing
by Bryan A. Garner, David Foster Wallace, L.W. Montgomery


Buried verbs, which I was taught are called nominalizations, are turning a verb into a noun for kind of BS-y reasons.

—p.93 The interview (23) by David Foster Wallace
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7 years, 3 months ago