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Nominalizer vs Nominalizes - What's the difference?

nominalizer | nominalizes |

As a noun nominalizer

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

As a verb nominalizes is

(nominalize).

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.
  • Coordinate terms

    * (l)

    nominalizes

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (nominalize)

  • nominalize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * nominalise (Non-Oxford British spelling)

    Verb

    (nominaliz)
  • (linguistics) To change into a noun, usually by affixing a morpheme.
  • * 1960 , Modern Language Association of America, Dwight le Merton Bollinger, Modern Spanish: A Project of The Modern Language Association , Harcourt, Brace, page 226
  • To nominalize' an adjective that refers to a known noun, the articles ''' is used.
  • * 1983 , Peter Achinstein, The Nature of Explanation , Oxford University Press US, page 199
  • But, Dretske asks, what happens when we nominalize a propositional allomorph?
  • (philosophy) To make nominalistic.
  • See also

    * substantive * substantivise, substantivize * substantivisation, substantivization