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Chapter 13. Nominalization in Shawi/Chayahuita

Typological Studies in Language, 2019
This paper deals with the Shawi nominalizing suffixes -su’~-ru’~-nu’ ‘general nominalizer’, -napi/-te’/-tun‘performer/agent nominalizer’, -pi’‘patient nominalizer’, and -nan ‘instrument nominalizer’.
Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia
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From object nominalization to object focus

Journal of Historical Linguistics, 2018
This article proposes that the divergent pattern of verb argument marking found in object focus clauses in the Tuparian branch of the Tupian family comes from the reanalysis of an object nominalization in a cleft construction.
Ana Vilacy Moreira Galúcio, Antônia Fernanda de Souza Nogueira   +1 more
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Grounding Nominalism

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2018
AbstractThe notion of grounding has gained increasing acceptance among metaphysicians in recent years. In this paper, I argue that this notion can be used to formulate a very attractive version of (property)nominalism, a view that I call ‘grounding nominalism’. Simplifying somewhat, this is the view thatall properties are grounded in things.
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Nominalism Through De‐Nominalization

Noûs, 2001
Etude de la critique du consensus entre semantique du premier ordre, semantique du second ordre et theorie des ensembles chez Quine, developpee par G. Boolos a partir d'un scheme distinguant les quantificateurs monadiques et les quantificateurs polyadiques.
Stephen Yablo, Agustín Rayo
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Cross-linguistic investigations of nominalization patterns

European Journal of English Studies, 2018
Cross-linguistic Investigations of Nominalization Patterns is Volume 210 of the Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today series, which deals with empirical and theoretical problems in syntax, semantics...
R. Wei, Wei He
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Nominalization: General Overview and Theoretical Issues

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2018
Nominalization refers both to the process by which complex nouns are created and to the complex nouns that are derived by that process. Nominalizations common in the languages of the world include event/result nouns, personal or participant nouns (agent,
R. Lieber
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Nominalizing and de-nominalizing: a reply

Discourse & Society, 2008
In this article, the author replies to the comments made by Van Dijk, Fairclough and Martin on 'The Language of Critical Discourse Analysis'. The author also discusses at greater length the background to his concerns with current styles of academic writing.
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Syntactic nominalization in latin: a case of non‐canonical subject agreement

, 2016
Much difficulty in the analysis of Latin constructions with dominant participles is caused by a typologically unusual pattern of subject agreement: instead of being assigned case according to their subject function (like, e.g., the accusative subjects of
Tatiana Nikitina, D. Haug
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Nominalization and re-finitization

, 2016
The mechanisms via which subordinate clauses arise are relatively well explored, involving two major diachronic pathways (Givon 2009): first, via clause-chaining constructions, as in many Niger-Congo, Papua-New Guinea, Southeast Asian, Athabaskan, or ...
T. Givón
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A corpus-based study of nominalization in English translations of Chinese literary prose

Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2015
This study is designed to analyze the use of nominalization in English translations of Chinese literary prose based on eight English translations of Chinese novels. It follows ‘Lees, R. (1963). The Grammar of English Nominalizations .
Yuqiu Hou
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