Citations:nominalization

English citations of nominalization

• 2006, Glyn Sheridan Burgess, Clara Strijbosch, The Brendan Legend: Texts and Versions, Brill Academic Pub., page 307:

  […] the famous Parisian teacher Serlo of Wilton, whose influence is conspicuous in some quotations, but especially in the playful and mannered nominalization of adverbs. […]

• 2012 January 1, Nathan Wasserman, Most Probably: Epistemic Modality in Old Babylonian, Penn State Press, →ISBN, page 113:

  Krebernik and Streck, in their 2001 study on irrealis, also suggested that tuša is connected to tuššum, noting that the etymology of the latter noun is still enigmatic, […] Furthermore, they postulate the possibility of a nominalization of the particle into the noun tuššum. Looking at the question from a wider angle, one finds that in different languages MPs tend to acquire their function by a process of grammaticalization, starting as regular lexical items (noun, adverbs, conjunctions) and then become MPs.