different between nominalization vs nominalizer

English

Alternative forms

• nominalisation (Non-Oxford British spelling)

Etymology

From nominal +? -ization or nominalize +? -ation

Noun

nominalization (countable and uncountable, plural nominalizations) (American spelling, Oxford British English)

1. (linguistics, uncountable) The use of a word which is not a noun (e.g. a verb or adjective) as a noun, with or without morphological transformation.
2. (linguistics, countable) An instance of such use: a noun formed from a nominalized adjective.

Synonyms

• substantivisation
• substantivation (uncommon)
• nounification

Derived terms

• agentive nominalization / agentive nominalisation
• nominalizer

Translations

Further reading

• nominalization at OneLook Dictionary Search
• nominalization, substantivization, substantivisation, substantivation at Google Ngram Viewer

English

Alternative forms

• nominaliser (Non-Oxford British spelling)

Etymology

nominalize +? -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n?m?n?la?z?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?n?m.?.n?l.a?z.?/

Noun

nominalizer (plural nominalizers) (American spelling, Oxford British English)

1. (linguistics) Anything, usually an affixed morpheme or a particle, that changes another part of speech into a noun.

Coordinate terms

• verbalizer

Related terms

• nominalization
• nominalize

Translations