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Nominalization vs Nominalizer - What's the difference?

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Nominalization is a related term of nominalizer.


In linguistics|lang=en terms the difference between nominalization and nominalizer

is that nominalization is (linguistics) the use of a verb or an adjective as a noun, with or without morphological transformation, so that the word can now act as the head of a noun phrase while nominalizer is (linguistics) anything, usually an affixed morpheme or a particle, that changes another part of speech into a noun.

As nouns the difference between nominalization and nominalizer

is that nominalization is (linguistics) the use of a verb or an adjective as a noun, with or without morphological transformation, so that the word can now act as the head of a noun phrase while nominalizer is (linguistics) anything, usually an affixed morpheme or a particle, that changes another part of speech into a noun.

nominalization

English

(wikipedia nominalization)

Alternative forms

* nominalisation (Non-Oxford British spelling)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (linguistics) The use of a verb or an adjective as a noun, with or without morphological transformation, so that the word can now act as the head of a noun phrase.

    • Synonyms

    * substantivization

    Derived terms

    * agentive nominalization / agentive nominalisation

    nominalizer

    English

    Alternative forms

    * nominaliser (Non-Oxford British spelling)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (linguistics) Anything, usually an affixed morpheme or a particle, that changes another part of speech into a noun.

    • Related terms

    * nominalization * nominalize

    Coordinate terms

    * (l)