A Cognitive-Functional Approach to Nominalization in English

✍ Scribed by Liesbet Heyvaert

Publisher: De Gruyter
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Leaves: 304
Series: Cognitive Linguistics Research, Vol. 26
Edition: Reprint 2015 ed.
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The main objective of the book is to present a systematic account of the constructional mechanisms that underlie deverbal nominalization. Such an account strongly calls for a functional rather than purely structural approach because nominalizations are basically functional re-classifications of verbal predicates into nominal constructions. The argument is fortyfied by a detailed discussion of a number of nominalization systems (i.e. deverbal -er nominalizations, gerundive nominals and that-nominalizations). This book is of interest to all researchers in cognitive and functional linguistics.

✦ Subjects

Grammar;Words, Language & Grammar;Reference;Linguistics;Words, Language & Grammar;Reference

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