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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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We choose to nominalise when we are making claims about the truth and we want to signal that we are engaged in a specific type of academic discourse.
On nominalisations DC 2008
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To this end he is content to nominalise a large fragment of Newtonian gravitational theory.
Indispensability Arguments in the Philosophy of Mathematics Colyvan, Mark 2008
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Undoubtedly it is Hegel's tendency to nominalise such abstract concepts in his attempt to capture the concrete nature of such patterns of conventional life, together with the tendency to then personify them (as in talking about
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Redding, Paul 2006
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