Comparative Concept: nominalizer (str)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
nominalizer (str)
| Typ | strategy |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | nominalizer |
| Assoziiert |
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Definition
a form that signals that a word is being used to refer, typically pertaining to a referent from a nonprototypical semantic class for reference. Example: the suffix -ness in oddness and the suffix -ment in movement are used when a property concept like 'odd' or an action concept like 'move' are being referred to. (Section 3.4.2)