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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"nominalization"”.
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Perspectives on nominalization
Discussion of nominalization (NZN) is possible only within a general theory of grammatical categories and processes. For a cross-linguistic analysis, it is preferable to adopt a function-based definition of categories, in which nominals are considered arguments of predications and verbals as …
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Clausal nominalization in Wolof
Wolof uses various strategies to express clausal nominalization i.e. genitive nominalization (GN), relative clause nominalization (RC nominalization) and headless relative clause nominalization. This dissertation provides a description of these nominalization processes with a special focus on GNs …
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Nominalizations and aspect
… associated with the A form. I argue that nominalization underlies many aspectually-conditioned splits described in the literature, as well as being at the core of the perfect construction in languages such as French and Italian. For the analysis to go through, two propositions have to be …
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Action Nominals in the Grammar Matrix
… are explained based on what level in the tree nominalization occurs to one that relies primarily on lexical rules. This change is motivated by a desire to expand the typological range of nominalization patterns the Matrix can handle while also more closely reflecting the hybrid syntactic nature …
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Diachronic word-formation: a corpus-based study of derived nominalizations in the history of English.
… dissertation investigates the history of derived nominalizations in English from 1500 to the present day, with special reference to the deverbal nominalizing suffix -(t)ion and the deadjectival nominalizing suffixes, -ness and -ity. The data are drawn from two historical corpora of English texts: …
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Verbs as nouns: empirical investigations on event-denoting nominalizations
… and interpretation presented by event-denoting nominalizations. Frequently, languages have more than one type of event nominalization, such as deverbal nouns derived by means of suffixes (Italian mutamento / mutazione, ‘change’, ‘mutation’, or English assignment, explosion) and their …
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The impact of teacher and peer dialogue on online collaborative writing in an authentic science literacy learning environment
… at this level of schooling, for example, use of nominalization, and finally, (iii) what is the degree of participation and contribution by students in a collaborative writing task? The research also examined how students' collaboratively written texts evolved, or changed, over time in terms of …
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A transformational treatment of Indian English syntax
… Theory of Syntax. The analysis concentrates on nominalization, pronominalization, adjectivalization and various aspects of the verb phrase. The comparative, passive, questions, expletive “there”, adverbs and deletions are also discussed. In Chapter III, questions, relatives, nominal modifiers, …
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Automated Adaptation Between Kiranti Languages
… vertical deixis, object-incorporated verbs, and nominalization issues. As this Kiranti adaptation goal involves adaptation into multiple target languages, I also present a disambiguation strategy that ensures that the manual disambiguation performed for one target language is fed back into the …
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Automated Adaptation Between Kiranti Languages
… vertical deixis, object-incorporated verbs, and nominalization issues. As this Kiranti adaptation goal involves adaptation into multiple target languages, I also present a disambiguation strategy that ensures that the manual disambiguation performed for one target language is fed back into the …
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The morphosemantics and morphosyntax of the Malayalam verb
… absolutives and that -athu gerunds involve nominalization above the TP-level (cf. Borsley & Kornfilt 2000, Baker 2011).
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A Nama grammar : the noun-phrase
… the NOUN-PHRASE. This topic has been chosen as nominalization is one of the most important features of Nama grammar. Nominalization is moreover that aspect of Nama syntax which is the most mispresented. This dissertation should not be seen as a theoretical work: It should rather be seen as a …
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Semi-Lexical Heads in Czech Modal Structures
… to convey epistemic meaning, the latter undergo nominalization and are capable of event denotation, but do not attain epistemic reading. The semi-lexical properties of both TMVs and OMVs are syntactically reflected in their specific subcategorization frame X, +MODAL, +mod, +__ [V, INF]. The …
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Other Than a Citizen: Vernacular Poetics in Postwar America
… the false certainty that accompanies categorical nominalization. In promoting a model of mutually dependent participation, these poets lay the groundwork for an alternative model of civic belonging, where volition and reciprocity replace compliance and self-sufficiency. In reading their lines, we …
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Institutional Responses to Racial Incidents in California Public Higher Education: A Qualitative Historical Document Analysis
… and rhetorical mechanisms—such as passive voice, nominalization, and register shifts—that institutions used to narrate or erase racial harm. Critical race theory provided the interpretive framework for examining how this discourse reproduced or contested racialized power. Drawing on core critical …