nominalization love

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  • 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

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nominal +‎ -ization

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  • The process by which a verb is turned into a noun.

    June 27, 2007

  • a verb or another part of speech.

    June 27, 2007