nominalisation

Also known as nominalization, substantivisation, substantivization

In linguistics, nominalization or nominalisation, also known as nouning, is the use of a word that is not a noun (e.g., a verb, an adjective or an adverb) as a noun, or as the head of a noun phrase. This change in functional category can occur through morphological transformation, but it does not always. Nominalization can refer, for instance, to the of producing a noun from another part of speech by adding a derivational affix (e.g., the noun "legalization" from the verb "legalize"), but it can also refer to the complex noun that is formed as a result.

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In various languages
English nominalization
Derivational morphology and nominalization
Zero-derivation nominalization
Stress- and pronunciation-dependent nominalization
Other Indo-European languages
Afro-Asiatic languages
Chinese
Vietnamese
Tibeto-Burman
Japanese
Dual nature of syntactic nominalization
Nominal and verbal properties in Japanese
Hawaiian
Zero-derivation in other languages
Syntactic analyses
Introduction to syntactic analyses
Emergence of X'-scheme – Chomsky (1965)
Chomsky and nominalization
Derived and gerundive nominals
Argument structure analysis – Grimshaw (1994)
Internal and external arguments
Argument structure theory
Nominalization-argument structure analysis
Types of events
Examples
Complex versus simple event nominals
Syntactic representation – Grimshaw (1994)
Subcategorization frames
Examination subcategorization frames
Writer subcategorization frames
Structural model analysis – Alexiadou (2001)
Analysis overview
Process and result nouns
More on deverbal nominalization
See also
Notes
References

Some languages simply allow verbs to be used as nouns without inflectional difference (conversion or zero derivation), while others require some form of morphological transformation. English has cases of both.