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- noun linguistics, British the use of a
verb or anadjective as anoun , with or withoutmorphological transformation , so that the word can now act as thehead of anoun phrase
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Examples
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The nominalisation allows this focus on the result without distraction.
On nominalisations DC 2008
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The nominalisation allows this focus on the result without distraction.
Archive 2008-08-01 DC 2008
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What the style guides are usually getting at is the overuse of two processes: (a) long words formed with a suffix such as -ation - as in nominalisation, indeed, from nominalise; and (b) sentences where a noun phrase derives from a finite clause, as in the rejection of the proposal, instead of X rejected the proposal.
On nominalisations DC 2008
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What the style guides are usually getting at is the overuse of two processes: (a) long words formed with a suffix such as -ation - as in nominalisation, indeed, from nominalise; and (b) sentences where a noun phrase derives from a finite clause, as in the rejection of the proposal, instead of X rejected the proposal.
Archive 2008-08-01 DC 2008
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In particular, Field's nominalisation program has dominated recent discussions of the ontology of mathematics.
Indispensability Arguments in the Philosophy of Mathematics Colyvan, Mark 2008
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