
In linguistics, nominalization or nominalisation is the use of a verb, an adjective, or an adverb as the head of a noun phrase, with or without morphological transformation. The term can also refer specifically to the process of producing a noun from another part of speech via the addition of derivational affixes (e.g., legalize versus legalizatio...
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nominalize, nominalization 1. To change a part of speech into a noun by the addition of a suffix. 2. To change an underlying clause by a syntactic process or series of rules so that it functions like a noun.
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